Neighborhood

A Neighborhood is a space region of proximal entities in a neighbor relationship.

• Example(s):
  • a Residential Neighborhood,
  • a Nearest Neighbor.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Empty Space.
• See: Nearest Neighbor Algorithm, Community.

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References

2009

• (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=neighborhood
  • S: (n) vicinity, locality, neighborhood, neighbourhood, neck of the woods (a surrounding or nearby region) "the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville"; "it is a rugged locality"; "he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood"; "I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods"
  • S: (n) neighborhood, neighbourhood (people living near one another) "it is a friendly neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush"
  • S: (n) region, neighborhood (the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')) "it was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job"; "the price is in the neighborhood of $100"
  • S: (n) neighborhood (an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)) "an ethnic neighborhood"

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