neighborhood
has definitions from the fields of sociology,geography
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[ noun ] (geography) a surrounding or nearby region
Synonyms Examples "the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville" "it is a rugged locality" "he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood" Used in print (J. F. Vedder, "Micrometeorites", in Francis S. J...)Even in the neighborhood of the Earth , where information has been obtained both directly and indirectly , the derived flux values vary by at_least four orders_of_magnitude . The flux of micrometeorites in the neighborhood of the Earth can be estimated by extrapolation from radar and visual meteor data . (R. P. Jerrard, "Inscribed squares in plane curves"...)An ordinary point will be any point_of_intersection A such_that in every neighborhood of A in the C-plane , **f meets both the interior and the exterior of C . In some neighborhood in the f-plane of any ordinary point of the graph , the function f is a single valued , continuous function . We first show that the function is single valued in some neighborhood . Related terms section place scenery gold_coast Left_Bank montmartre Right_Bank 'hood proximity |
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[ noun ] (sociology) people living near one another
Synonyms Examples "it is a friendly neighborhood" "my neighborhood voted for Bush" Used in print (W. E. B. DuBois, Worlds of Color....)This , of_course , was the sort of thing that used_to take_place in Southern cities - putting white houses_of_prostitution colored girls in colored neighborhoods and carrying them on openly . (Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)My memory has catalogued for easy reference and withdrawal the image of her pink , scented stationery and the unsloped , almost printed configurations of her neat , studious handwriting with which she invited me to recall our summer , so many sentences beginning with `` Remember when '' ; and_others concerning camp friends who resided in her suburban neighborhood , and news of her commencing again her piano_lessons , her private_school , a visit to Boston to see her grandparents and an uncle who was a surgeon returned on furlough , wounded , from the war in Europe . Among my school and neighborhood friends , during the next months , I bragged and swaggered and pompously described my impending date . I felt superior to the neighborhood friends I was leaving_behind , felt older than my years , and was full of compliments for myself as I headed into the subway that was carrying its packs of passengers out of_that dull borough and into the unstable , tantalizing excitement of Manhattan . |
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[ noun ] the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')
Synonyms Examples "it was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job" "the price is in the neighborhood of $100" Related terms |
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