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Definition of Adjoin
1. Verb. Lie adjacent to another or share a boundary. "England marches with Scotland"
Generic synonyms: Contact, Meet, Touch
Specialized synonyms: Neighbor, Neighbour
Derivative terms: Abutment, Abutter, Border, Border, Butt, Edge, Edging, March
2. Verb. Be in direct physical contact with; make contact. "His fields adjoin mine at this point"; "The surfaces contact at this point"
Specialized synonyms: Cover, Spread Over, Adhere, Cleave, Cling, Cohere, Stick, Chafe, Fray, Fret, Rub, Scratch, Attach, Hug, Abut, Border, Butt, Butt Against, Butt On, Edge, March, Border, Environ, Ring, Skirt, Surround, Lean Against, Lean On, Rest On
Related verbs: Converge, Meet
Derivative terms: Adjunction, Adjunctive, Contact, Contact, Contact, Touch
3. Verb. Attach or add. "I adjoin a copy of your my lawyer's letter"
Definition of Adjoin
1. v. t. To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append.
2. v. i. To lie or be next, or in contact; to be contiguous; as, the houses adjoin.
Definition of Adjoin
1. Verb. (transitive) To be in contact or connection with. ¹
2. Verb. (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). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Adjoin
1. to lie next to [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adjoin
Literary usage of Adjoin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Restituta: Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"Mean time, take Homer, for my wants' supply : To whom adjoin'd, your name shall
never die. XI. To the happy Star, discovered in our ..."
2. Comparative Anatomy of the Vegetative Organs of the Phanerogams and Ferns by Anton Bary (1884)
"Sieve-plates are distributed in different ways, according to special cases, on
the lateral faces of members of tubes, where these adjoin other similar ..."
3. A Treatise on Land-surveying: Comprising the Theory Developed from Five by William Mitchell Gillespie (1869)
"... their difference will be the length of BC. CASE 4. When the Bearings of two
sides are wanting. (117) When the deficient sides adjoin each other. ..."
4. Systematic Arrangement of Lord Coke's First Institute of the Laws of England by John Henry Thomas, Sir Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Heneage Finch Nottingham, Edward Coke, Matthew Hale (1836)
"... (Л) And albeit the counties do not adjoin, but there be twenty (*)5E. 4. a.
counties mean between them, yet the assise in ..."
5. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"One house may be said to be In the neighborhood of another house, and not
structurally adjoin It." Lang- ley v. Barnstead, 63 NH 246, ..."
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