neighborhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪbə.hʊd/
ipa: /ˈneɪbɚˌhʊd/
Forms: form: neighborhoods
form: neighbourhood
Etymology: From an alteration of earlier neighborred (“neighborhood”), from Middle English neȝeburredde, neheborreden, equivalent to neighbor + -red; the term being interpreted as neighbor + -hood. For change in suffix (-red to -hood), compare brotherhood.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots nichbourheid (“neighbourhood”). Compare also Dutch naburigheid (“neighbourhood”).
Senses: examples: text: He lives in my neighborhood.
text: I know the shadiest breeziest spots, hidden tables surrounded by trees that have lived longer than the neighborhoods around them. […] I simply remembered a great little park in a neighborhood where I used to teach at the elementary school up the road.
ref: 2020 September 5, Jane Greenway Carr, “How we spent our summer not-vacations”, in CNN:
glosses: The residential area near one's home.
examples: text: The fire alarmed the neighborhood.
glosses: The inhabitants of a residential area.
examples: text: We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood.
glosses: A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.
examples: text: He must be making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year.
glosses: An approximate amount.
examples: text: The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood.
glosses: The quality of physical proximity.
examples: text: Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings.
text: 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 243-245,
[…] if you do any thing for charity, helpe me; if for neighborhood or brotherhood, helpe me […]
text: Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up
Issue to me; that the contending kingdoms
Of France and England, whose very shores look pale
With envy of each other’s happiness,
May cease their hatred; and this dear conjunction
Plant neighbourhood and Christian-like accord
In their sweet bosoms […]
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: Nor content with such / Audacious neighbourhood, the wisest heart / Of Solomon he led by fraud to build / His Temple right against the Temple of God.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighbourhood.
ref: 1835, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes:
glosses: The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each other; proximity.
examples: text: At first he was partly hidden among the latschen, then his hind-quarters, quite black, emerged from the dark green bushes, as he slowly moved on, perfectly unconscious of our neighbourhood.
ref: 1853, Charles Boner, Chamois Hunting in the Mountains of Bavaria, page 286:
glosses: Close proximity; nearness.
glosses: The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: Within a topological space:
A set containing an open set which contains some specified point.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: Within a topological space:
Alternatively: An open set which contains some specified point.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: Within a metric space:
A set containing an open ball which contains a specified point.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: Within a metric space:
Alternatively: An open ball which contains some specified point.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.
examples: text: In fact, it looks at the number of states and the neighborhood of the rule (determined by the filename), and decides whether to make it a lookup-table, or a "computed-function" rule.
ref: 1990 July 9, David Hiebeler, “Languages for programming cellular automata”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
text: Universal: Is able to simulate other CA, the neighborhood size may be limited but the number of cell value should be unlimited (big neighborhoods can be transformed into multivalued cells).
ref: 2005 September 7, IzI, “reversible universal 1D CA?”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
text: I've seen this space colloqually referred to as MAP (presumably since it maps a 3x3 neighborhood into a future cell state), or more precisely and if you want to be pedantic, since there are a lot of variants of cellular automata: 2D Range-1 Moore neighborhood 2-state (non-totalistic) cellular automata (regular euclidean grid implied, although some people explore toroidal configurations, nonstandard tilings, or arbitrary graphs).
ref: 2022 February 11, Mateon1, “Game of Life with real 8 neighbors”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
graph-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.
The set of all cells near a given cell used to determine that cell's state in the next generation.
Synonyms: neighborship
vicinity
proximity
quarter
Derived terms: agrihood
clear the neighborhood
compact neighborhood
eco-neighborhood
gayborhood
gay neighborhood
hood
in close neighborhood
in the neighborhood of
Margolus neighborhood
microneighborhood
Moore neighborhood
nabe
neighborhood electric vehicle
neighborhoodful
neighborhooding
neighborhoodlike
neighborhood play
neighborhoody
niggerhood
orthographic neighborhood
punctured neighborhood
there goes the neighborhood
von Neumann neighborhood
Related terms: neighborred
neighborship
neighbourhead