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adjacent things may or may not be in actual contact with each other, but they are not separated by things of the same kind adjacent angles, adjacent farmhouses; that which is adjoining something else touches it at some point or along a line adjoining rooms; things are contiguous when they touch along the whole or most of one side contiguous farms; tangent implies contact at a single, nonintersecting point with a curved line or surface a line tangent to a circle; neighboring things lie near to each other neighboring villages
See adjacent in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
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