Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Not adjacent; not next: Describes things that are not adjoining, touching, or immediately next to each other in space, sequence, or order.

Usage and Examples

• Adjective:
  • The two houses are nonadjacent; there is another building between them.
  • Please answer the nonadjacent questions on the test, skipping every other one.
  • In the spreadsheet, select the nonadjacent cells by holding the Ctrl key.

Advanced Usage

• In Mathematics/Graph Theory: Used to describe vertices in a graph that are not connected by a direct edge.
  • In this network, the two central hubs are nonadjacent.
• In Computing: Refers to memory locations, data blocks, or files that are not contiguous.
  • The program stores the data in nonadjacent sectors on the disk.

Variants and Related Words

• Nonadjacency (noun): The state or condition of not being adjacent.
  • The nonadjacency of the properties made shared utilities impractical.

Synonyms

• Separated
• Disconnected
• Noncontiguous
• Not adjoining

Antonyms

• Adjacent
• Adjoining
• Contiguous
• Next

Adjective

1. not adjacent; not next