mindmap root((邻近)) adjacent may or may not imply contact but always implies absence of anything of the same kind in between: the price of the house and the ~ garage. adjoining definitely implies meeting and touching at some point or line: assigned ~ rooms at the hotel. contiguous implies having contact on all or most of one side: offices in all 48 ~ states. abutting stresses the termination of one thing along a line of contact with another: land ~ on the road. tangent implies contact at a single point: a line ~ to a curve. conterminous applies to objects bordering on each other: crossing the ~ border of France and Germany; or having the same bounds, limits, or ends: the several ~ civil and ecclesiastical parishes of England. juxtaposed means placed side by side especially so as to permit comparison and contrast: an ultramodern office building ~ to a Gothic church.