Synonym Study

• Neighboring things lie near to each other neighboring villages
• Tangent implies contact at a single, nonintersecting point with a curved line or surface a line tangent to a circle
• Things are contiguous when they touch along the whole or most of one side contiguous farms
• That which is adjoining something else touches it at some point or along a line adjoining rooms
• 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