adjacent: may OR may not imply contact, but always implies absence of anyting 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 limits, bounds or ends: the several ~ civil and ecclesiastical parishes of England.


juxtaposed: means placed side by side esp. so as to permit comparison and contrast: an ultramodern office ~ to a Gothic church.


adjacent: 之间没有同类事物，可能接触或没接触， adjoining: 明确表示在某点或线接触，contiguous: 在一整条边接触，abutting: 强调在接触的边线终结(即边界)，tangent: 在单个点接触，conterminous: 表示有共同边界，或共同界限终点，juxtaposed: 并排放置以便比较对比。


记忆方法：1) AACATCJ重新排列为CC TJ AAA：长春天津3小时(A和hour发音接近)==〉邻近不邻近？


         2) 邻近的意思是： being in close proximity.