примыка́ть — meaning in English

English meaning

• abut verb To share a border with, or be right next to, something else.
• adjoin verb To be in contact or connection with.

Senses

примыка́ть is used for these senses in English:

• abut (intransitive) To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land) [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
• adjoin (transitive) To be in contact or connection with.

adjoin — full definition

1. verb To be in contact or connection with.
2. verb To extend an algebraic object (e.g. a field, a ring, etc.) by adding to it an element not belonging to it and then ensuring closure, for example by also adding all finite power series of the element.

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