adjoin

  1. Verb.  (transitive) To be in contact or connection with.
  2. Verb.  (transitive, mathematics) 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).

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