neighborhood

noun15

1. •
   the area around someone's home, with its streets and houses

   • He lives in my neighborhood.
2. •
   The inhabitants of a residential area.

   • The fire alarmed the neighborhood.
3. •
   A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.

   • We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood.
4. •
   An approximate amount.

   • He must be making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year.
5. •
   The quality of physical proximity.

   • The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood.
6. •
   (old-fashioned) 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
7. •
   A set containing an open set which contains some specified point.
8. •
   Alternatively: An open set which contains some specified point.
9. •
   A set containing an open ball which contains a specified point.
10. •
    Alternatively: An open ball which contains some specified point.
11. •
    The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.
12. •
    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
13. •
    The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point.
14. •
    (no longer used) The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each other; proximity.

    • Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings.
15. •
    (no longer used) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.