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noun

• The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each-other; proximity.

  Example: Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings.

• Close proximity, nearby area; particularly, close proximity to one's home.

  Example: He lives in my neighborhood.

• The inhabitants of a residential area.

  Example: The fire alarmed the neighborhood.

• A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.

  Example: We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood.

• An approximate amount.

  Example: He must be making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year.

• The quality of physical proximity.

  Example: The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood.

• The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.

• Within a topological space:

• Within a metric space:

• The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point.

• The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.