ADJOIN
adjoin
(verb) attach or add; âI adjoin a copy of your my lawyerâs letterâ
touch, adjoin, meet, contact
(verb) be in direct physical contact with; make contact; âThe two buildings touchâ; âTheir hands touchedâ; âThe wire must not contact the metal coverâ; âThe surfaces contact at this pointâ
border, adjoin, edge, abut, march, butt, butt against, butt on
(verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; âCanada adjoins the U.S.â; âEngland marches with Scotlandâ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
adjoin (third-person singular simple present adjoins, present participle adjoining, simple past and past participle adjoined)
(transitive) To be in contact or connection with.
(transitive, mathematics, chiefly, algebra and number theory) To extend an algebraic object (e.g. a field, a ring, etc.) by adding to it (an element not belonging to it) and all finite power series of (the element).
can be obtained from by adjoining to .
Source: Wiktionary
Ad*join", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adjoined; p. pr. & vb. n. Adjoining.]
Etym: [OE. ajoinen, OF. ajoindre, F. adjoindre, fr. L. adjungere; ad
+ jungere to join. See Join, and cf. Adjunct.]
Definition: To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact
with; to attach; to append.
Corrections . . . should be, as remarks, adjoined by way of note.
Watts.
Ad*join", v. i.
1. To lie or be next, or in contact; to be contiguous; as, the houses
adjoin.
When one man's land adjoins to another's. Blackstone.
Note: The construction with to, on, or with is obsolete or
obsolescent.
2. To join one's self. [Obs.]
She lightly unto him adjoined side to side. Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition