Catlap vs Adjoin - What's the difference?

catlap | adjoin |

As a verb adjoin is

to be in contact or connection with.

catlap

Not English

Catlap has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

adjoin

English

Verb

(en verb)

To be in contact or connection with.

The living room and dining room adjoin each other.

(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).

$\textbf{Q}\left(\sqrt{2}\right)$ can be obtained from $\textbf{Q}$ by adjoining $\sqrt{2}$ to $\textbf{Q}$ .

Derived terms

* adjoining