Append vs Adjoin - What's the difference?
append | adjoin |
To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column.
To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter.
(computing) To write more data to the end of a pre-existing file.
To be in contact or connection with.
(transitive, mathematics, chiefly, algebra, and, number theory) To extend an algebraic object (e.g. a field, a ring etc.) by adding to it (an element not belonging to it) and all finite power series of (the element).
In transitive terms the difference between append and adjoin
is that append is to add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter while adjoin is to be in contact or connection with.As a noun append
is an instance of writing more data to the end of an existing file.append
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(en verb)- The living room and dining room adjoin each other.
- can be obtained from by adjoining to .