neighborhood

Noun

neighborhood (countable and uncountable, plural neighborhoods)

1. (US) The residential area near one's home.
   • He lives in my neighborhood.
   • 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.2020 September 5, Jane Greenway Carr, “How we spent our summer not-vacations”, in CNN
2. (US, collective) The inhabitants of a residential area.
   • The fire alarmed the neighborhood.
3. (US) A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.
   • We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood.
4. (US) An approximate amount.
   • He must be making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year.
5. (US) The quality of physical proximity.
   • The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood.
6. (US, obsolete) The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each other; proximity.
   • Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings.
   • […] if you do any thing for charity, helpe me; if for neighborhood or brotherhood, helpe me […]1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 243-245
7. (US, dated) Close proximity; nearness.
   • 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.1853, Charles Boner, Chamois Hunting in the Mountains of Bavaria, page 286
8. (US, obsolete) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
9. (US) A set containing an open set which contains some specified point.
10. (US) Alternatively: An open set which contains some specified point.
11. (US) A set containing an open ball which contains a specified point.
12. (US) Alternatively: An open ball which contains some specified point.
13. (US) The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point.
14. (US) The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.
    1. (US) The set of all cells near a given cell used to determine that cell's state in the next generation.
       • 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.1990 July 9, David Hiebeler, “Languages for programming cellular automata”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
       • 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).2005 September 7, IzI, “reversible universal 1D CA?”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)