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Neighboring vs Adjoin - What's the difference?

neighboring | adjoin |

As verbs the difference between neighboring and adjoin

is that neighboring is (us) while adjoin is to be in contact or connection with.

As an adjective neighboring

is (us) situated or living nearby or adjacent to.

neighboring

English

Alternative forms

* neighbouring (Commonwealth )

Adjective

(-)
  • (US) Situated or living nearby or adjacent to.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (US)

    • 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