adjacent vs consequent

adjacent

adj
  • Related to; suggestive of; bordering on. 

  • Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on. 

  • Just before, after, or facing. 

noun
  • Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite. 

prep
  • Next to; beside. 

  • Related to; suggestive of; bordering on. 

consequent

adj
  • Of or pertaining to consequences. 

  • Following as a result, inference, or natural effect. 

  • Of a stream, having a course determined by the slope it formed on. 

noun
  • An event which follows another. 

  • The second term of a ratio, i.e. the term b in the ratio a:b, the other being the antecedent. 

  • A consequent stream. 

  • The second half of a hypothetical proposition; Q, if the form of the proposition is "If P, then Q." 

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