neighborhood | |
1. n. (chiefly obsolete) The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each-other; proximity. | |
Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings. | |
2. n. Close proximity, nearby area; particularly, close proximity to one's home. | |
He lives in my neighborhood. | |
3. n. The inhabitants of a residential area. | |
The fire alarmed the neighborhood. | |
4. n. A formal or informal division of a municipality or region. | |
We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood. | |
5. n. An approximate amount. | |
He must be making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year. | |
6. n. The quality of physical proximity. | |
The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood. | |
7. n. (obsolete) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will. | |
8. n. (topology) Within a topological space: | |
9. n. A set containing an open set which contains some specified point. | |
10. n. Alternatively: An open set which contains some specified point. | |
11. n. (topology) Within a metric space: | |
12. n. A set containing an open ball which contains a specified point. | |
13. n. Alternatively: An open ball which contains some specified point. | |
14. n. (topology) The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point. | |
15. n. (graph theory) The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex. | |