adjoin

Verb

Verb Forms: adjoined, adjoining, adjoins

• To be next to and joined with a building or room.
• lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
  • "Canada adjoins the U.S."
• be in direct physical contact with; make contact
• attach or add
  • "I adjoin a copy of your my lawyer's letter"
• To be in contact or connection with.
• 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.

Examples

• The field adjunction #92;mathbb#123;Q#125;(#92;pi) can be obtained from #92;mathbb#123;Q#125; by adjoining #92;pi to #92;mathbb#123;Q#125;.
• The living room and dining room adjoin each other.
• The ring adjunction #92;mathbb#123;Q#125;#91;#92;sqrt#123;2#125;#93; can be obtained from #92;mathbb#123;Q#125; by adjoining #92;sqrt#123;2#125; to #92;mathbb#123;Q#125;.
• You can adjoin that ’S’ to my word to make a plural and score big.

Synonyms

abut, border, butt, butt against, butt on, contact, edge, march, meet, touch

Related Words

adjunction