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nonadjacent

nonadjacent

6.6
Not next to another thing
  • adjective
  • /nɒnəˈdʒeɪsənt/
translation icon : no adyacente
  • The schedule made it difficult to attend events held in nonadjacent locations.
  • nonadjacent regions

Examples

  • The presence of an activator in the zebra skin inhibits pigment production in nonadjacent skin patches, and the zebra ends up as a mixture of black and white.

    Academic text (2003)
  • For the healthy talker, visual inspection reveals high coupling between adjacent and nonadjacent regions for /t/ but more independent movement between nonadjacent regions for /k/.

    Academic text (2012)
  • So let's think about what happens to the degrees of nonadjacent vertices.

  • Communications between nonadjacent nodes involved processor-to-processor message passing.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • For the healthy talker, visual inspection reveals high coupling between adjacent and nonadjacent regions for /t/ but more independent movement between nonadjacent regions for /k/.

    Academic text (2012)
  • My proposal for a three-level solid-state maser solved this problem by saturating a resonance between two nonadjacent energy levels.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Average covariance within pellet pairs (see Green & Wang, 2003) provided an index of coupling strength between adjacent and nonadjacent tongue regions.

    Academic text (2012)
  • This definition, justified by the actual geography of violence and used consistently in this article, corresponds to the "urbanized area" described by the U.S. census, and it excludes nonadjacent commuter settlements that fall within a U.S. "metropolitan area" (White 1987, 286-288).

    Academic text (1997)
  • In the game, you can only land on nonadjacent squares to win.

  • The artist used two nonadjacent colors to create a striking contrast in her painting.

Synonyms

noncontiguous
vsnonadjacent
1 7.9

Placed apart so they are not next to each other

is limited to things not side by side in physical space

Antonyms

100 3.8

Next to something, often sharing a border or edge

How Close

adjacent
100 3.8
near
240 1.0
nonadjacent
6.6
distant
246 2.8
far
241 1.0

Surface Forms

nonadjacent positive

Morphology

nonadjacent = adjacent (transparent) = non + adjacent + non

Meaning is directly derived by productive negation: 'non-' + 'adjacent' = 'not adjacent'.

Etymology

Nonadjacent is formed from non- meaning 'not' and adjacent meaning 'next to' or 'touching'. So, nonadjacent means 'not next to' or 'separated', for example two chairs with an empty seat between them.