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adjacent

adjective
  1. Not far from another in space, time, or relation: close, contiguous, immediate, near, nearby, nigh, proximate. Idioms: at hand, under one's nose, within a stone's throw, within hailing distance. See near
  2. Sharing a common boundary: adjoining, conterminous, contiguous, next. See near

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