adjoin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

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.

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adjoin adjoins adjoining adjoined

From Anglo-Norman adjoindre, from Latin adiungō.

adjunction

adjoinedly adjoining

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