An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics
English-French-Persian

1) The area or region around or near some place or thing; vicinity. → solar neighborhood.
2) Math.: An → open set that contains a given point.

From neighbor, M.E., O.E. neahgebur, from neah→ near + -hood suffix denoting "state or condition of being;" M.E. -hode, -hod; O.E. -had "condition, position," cognate with Ger. -heit, Du. -heid.

Hamsâyegi, noun from hamsâyé "neighbor," literally "under, sharing the same shade," from ham-, → syn-, + sâyé, → shadow.

That part of the Milky Way galaxy lying near the Sun. In fact there is no definition of the exact radius of this region. It is referred to the immediate solar neighborhood (within about 5 pc), the solar neighborhood (within about 25 pc), and the extended solar neighborhood (within a few hundred pc).

→ solar; → neighborhood.