neighborhood
Definitions
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The residential area near one's home. US, countable, uncountable
- The residential area near one's home
- in the neighborhood of, approximately; nearly; about.
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The inhabitants of a residential area. US, countable, uncountable
- The inhabitants of a residential area
- A district or area with distinctive characteristics: a neighborhood of fine homes; a working-class neighborhood.
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A formal or informal division of a municipality or region. US, countable, uncountable
- A formal or informal division of a municipality or region
- The people who live near one another or in a particular district or area: The noise upset the entire neighborhood.
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An approximate amount. US, countable, uncountable
- An approximate amount
- The surrounding area; vicinity: happened to be in the neighborhood.
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The quality of physical proximity. US, countable, uncountable
- The quality of physical proximity
- Informal Approximate amount or range: in the neighborhood of five million dollars.
- The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each other; proximity.
- Friendliness appropriate to a neighbor: a feeling of neighborhood.
- Close proximity; nearness.
- Mathematics The set of points surrounding a specified point, each of which is within a certain, usually small distance from the specified point.
- The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
- the area or region around or near some place or thing; vicinity.
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Within a topological space: US, countable, uncountable
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A set containing an open set which contains some specified point. US, countable, uncountable
- a district or locality, often with reference to its character or inhabitants: a fashionable neighborhood.
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Alternatively: An open set which contains some specified point. US, countable, uncountable
- a number of persons living in a particular locality.
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Within a metric space: US, countable, uncountable
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A set containing an open ball which contains a specified point. US, countable, uncountable
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Alternatively: An open ball which contains some specified point. US, countable, uncountable
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The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point. US, countable, uncountable
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The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex. US, countable, uncountable
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The set of all cells near a given cell used to determine that cell's state in the next generation. US, countable, uncountable
Equivalents
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Euskaraauzo
فارسیمحله
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Gaeilgecomharsanacht
Galegoburgo
ગુજરાતીપડોશ
עבריתשכונה
हिन्दीपड़ोस
Հայերենթաղ
Íslenskanágrenni
ქართულისამეზობლო
മലയാളംഅയൽപക്കം
Shqipfqinj
Kiswahilimtaa
Tagalogkapitbahayan
Examples
“He lives in my neighborhood.”
“I know⟳ the shadiest breeziest spots, hidden tables surrounded by trees that have⟳ lived longer than the neighborhoods around them. […] I simply remembered a great little park⟳ in a neighborhood where I used to teach⟳ at the elementary school up the road.”
“The fire alarmed the neighborhood.”
“We have⟳ just moved to a pleasant neighborhood.”
“He must be making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year.”
“The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood.”
“Our neighborhood was our only reason⟳ to exchange⟳ hollow greetings.”
“1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 243-245, […] if you do any thing for charity, helpe me; if for neighborhood or brotherhood, helpe me […]”
“Take⟳ her, fair son, and from her blood raise⟳ up Issue⟳ to me; that the contending kingdoms Of France and England, whose very shores look⟳ pale With envy of each other’s happiness, May cease their hatred; and this dear conjunction Plant⟳ neighbourhood and Christian-like accord In their sweet bosoms […]”
“Nor content with such / Audacious neighbourhood, the wisest heart / Of Solomon he led by fraud to build⟳ / His Temple right against the Temple of God.”
“Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighbourhood.”
“At first he was partly hidden among the latschen, then his hind-quarters, quite black, emerged from the dark green bushes, as he slowly moved on, perfectly unconscious of our neighbourhood.”
“In fact, it looks at the number⟳ of states and the neighborhood of the rule⟳ (determined by the filename), and decides whether to make⟳ it a lookup-table, or a "computed-function" rule⟳.”
“Universal: Is able to simulate other CA, the neighborhood size may be limited but the number⟳ of cell value should be unlimited (big neighborhoods can be transformed into multivalued cells).”
“I've seen this space colloqually referred to as MAP (presumably since it maps a 3x3 neighborhood into a future cell state), or more precisely and if you want⟳ to be pedantic, since there are a lot of variants of cellular automata: 2D Range-1 Moore neighborhood 2-state (non-totalistic) cellular automata (regular euclidean grid implied, although some people explore⟳ toroidal configurations, nonstandard tilings, or arbitrary graphs).”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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