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English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman adjoindre, from Latin adiungō.
Pronunciation
- enPR: ə-join'
- (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA(key): /əˈd͡ʒɔɪn/
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /əˈd͡ʒoɪn/
- Rhymes: -ɔɪn
Verb
adjoin (third-person singular simple present adjoins, present participle adjoining, simple past and past participle adjoined)
- (transitive) To be in contact or connection with.
- The living room and dining room adjoin each other.
- 2013, Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project, →ISBN, page 55:
- We were in the living area, which adjoins the kitchen.
- (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 then ensuring closure, for example by also adding all finite power series of the element.
- The ring adjunction can be obtained from by adjoining to .
- The field adjunction can be obtained from by adjoining to .
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Translations
to be in contact or connection with
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