adjacent vs next

adjacent

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

  • Related to; suggestive of; 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. 

next

adj
  • Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining. 

  • Nearest in order, succession, or rank; immediately following (or sometimes preceding) in order. 

  • Nearest in relationship. (See also next of kin.) 

adv
  • In a time, place, rank or sequence closest or following. 

  • On the first subsequent occasion. 

  • So as to follow in time or sequence something previously mentioned. 

det
  • Closest in the future, or closest but one if the closest is very soon; of days, sometimes thought to specifically refer to the instance closest to seven days (one week) in the future. 

  • Denotes the one immediately following the current or most recent one. 

noun
  • The one that follows after this one. 

How often have the words adjacent and next occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )