adjoin

ad·join

to be next to; be contiguous to
to unite or annex (to a person or thing)

Origin of adjoin

Middle English ajoinen from Old French ajoindre from Classical Latin adjungere from ad-, to (see ad-) + jungere: see join

to be next to each other; be in contact

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adjoin

verb

ad·joined, ad·join·ing, ad·joins

verb

transitive

To be next to; be contiguous to: property that adjoins ours.
To attach: “I do adjoin a copy of the letter that I have received” ( John Fowles )

verb

intransitive

To be contiguous.

Origin of adjoin

Middle English ajoinen from Old French ajoindre ajoin- from Latin adiungere to join to ad- ad- iungere to join ; see yeug- in Indo-European roots.

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Verb

(third-person singular simple present adjoins, present participle adjoining, simple past and past participle adjoined)

To be in contact or connection with.
The living room and dining room adjoin each other.
(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).
can be obtained from by adjoining to .

Origin

From Anglo-Norman adjoindre, from Latin adiungō.

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