different between gattu vs adjoin

Corsican

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??at?u/

Noun

gattu m (plural gatti)

1. Alternative form of ghjattu

References

• “ghjattu, gattu, ghiattu” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin cattus. Cognates include Italian gatto and Spanish gato.

Noun

gattu m (plural gattos, feminine gatta, feminine plural gattas)

1. cat

Synonyms

• mussittu

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• attu, iattu, jattu

Etymology

From Late Latin cattus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??at.tu/, /??at.tu/
• Hyphenation: gàt?tu

Noun

gattu m (plural gatti)

1. cat

Related terms

• gatta

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman adjoindre, from Latin adiung?.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?-join'
• IPA^(key): /??d???n/
• Rhymes: -??n

Verb

adjoin (third-person singular simple present adjoins, present participle adjoining, simple past and past participle adjoined)

1. (transitive) To be in contact or connection with.

   The living room and dining room adjoin each other.

   • We were in the living area, which adjoins the kitchen.

2. (transitive, mathematics, chiefly algebra and number theory) To extend an algebraic object (e.g. a field, a ring, etc.) by adding to it (an element not belonging to it) and all finite power series of (the element).

   ${\displaystyle {\textbf {Q}}\left({\sqrt {2}}\right)}$ can be obtained from ${\displaystyle {\textbf {Q}}}$ by adjoining ${\displaystyle {\sqrt {2}}}$ to ${\displaystyle {\textbf {Q}}}$.

Derived terms

• adjoining

Related terms

• adjunction

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