Adjunction

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of joining; the state of being joined. The thing joined.
  • noun. In civil law, the joining of one person's property to that of another permanently, as the building of a house upon another's land, painting of a picture on another's canvas, and the like.
  • noun. In mathematics, the process of obtaining the domain Ω from the domain Ω by adding to it the number a which does not already belong to it, and adding also all numbers arising from a finite number of additions, subtractions, multiplications, and divisions involving a and all numbers in the domain Ω. See the extract.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of joining; the thing joined or added.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of joining; the thing joined or added.
  • noun. A form of similarity between a pair of categories mapped to each other by dual morphisms.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an act of joining or adjoining things
  • Word Usage
    "The negation operator ¬X can be introduced from the last adjunction."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract