The phrase "adjacent past" is not a standard expression in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts discussing time or events that are close to each other in the past, but clarity may be lacking without additional context.
Example: "In the adjacent past, we witnessed several significant changes in the industry that shaped our current strategies."
Alternatives: "recent past" or "immediate past".
Around the corner in an adjacent street, past a ramshackle community garden that appears to comprise almost entirely of weeds, is where the action's happening.
In a fluid reacting to mechanical stress by undergoing laminar flow (i.e., nonturbulent viscous flow), the shearing motion of adjacent layers past one another is impeded by friction arising from the migration of individual molecules between the different layers.
Since the key frames are intraencoded, they do not depend on temporally adjacent frames, past or future and, thus, their quality is only dependent on the chosen QP for the transform coefficients.
Movement of the cilia or flagella occurs when adjacent microtubules slide past one another, bending the structures.
The repetitive contraction and relaxation of muscles requires that tendons glide smoothly past adjacent tissues.
Many species of phagotrophic, osmotrophic (sensu stricto), and phototrophic euglenids are capable of rhythmic cellular deformations called "euglenoid movement" (syn. "metaboly") that is facilitated by adjacent strips sliding past one another at their zones of articulation [ 8- 13].
Break another adjacent window (running past – or shooting – the villages lying in wait outside it) and jump out onto the roof of the shack next door.
There is an explanation, which becomes clear as groups of his team-mates, similarly attired, wander past an adjacent window.
He refused to comment on his round, walked past reporters adjacent to the 18th green, marched somberly into the locker room, then left through a side door.
In a hallway outside of an interview room, Williams slipped inside of a vestibule, where she went unnoticed as Lisa Raymond exited an adjacent door and walked past her.
