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Neighbor vs Adjoin - What's the difference?

neighbor | adjoin |

As verbs the difference between neighbor and adjoin

is that neighbor is standard spelling of from=American spelling|lang=en while adjoin is to be in contact or connection with.

As a noun neighbor

is standard spelling of from=American spelling|lang=en.

neighbor

English

Noun

(en noun)

    • Verb

    (en verb)
    • English words not following the I before E except after C rule

    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

    Related terms

    * adjunction