neighborhood has definitions from the fields of sociology,geography
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[ noun ] (geography) a surrounding or nearby region

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 .

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[ noun ] (sociology) people living near one another

Synonyms

neighbourhood

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 .

Related terms

community street

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[ noun ] the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')

Synonyms

region

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

indefinite_quantity

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