adjoin
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /əˈdʒɔɪn/
adjoin (adjoins, present participle adjoining; past and past participle adjoined)
- (transitive) To be in contact or connection with.
- The living room and dining room adjoin each other.
- 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 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}.
- French: adjoindre
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