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neighbor

[′nā·bər]
(crystallography)
One of a pair of atoms or ions in a crystal which are close enough to each other for their interaction to be of significance in the physical problem being studied.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Also last February, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani underlined in a meeting with his Kuwaiti counterpart Marzouq Al-Ghanim that Iran was persistent in maintaining its friendly ties with the neighboring countries.
There may also be access issues where the neighbor doing the construction needs to gain access to the neighboring property in order to "protect" it with scaffolding and netting or use as a base for other work.
Askari expressed his hope that "Other neighboring countries to follow the example of Turkey through building good bilateral relations.
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Other neighboring retailers include Petco, Equinox and Barnes & Noble.
Compared to neighboring Thailand, which even during the Asian financial crisis maintained a relatively high standard of living and a solid middle class, Burma appeared destitute.
Neighboring tenants include Rite Aid, ShopRite, H&R Block, Walgreens, Forman Mills, Strauss Auto, Dunkin' Donuts, Bank of America and Blockbuster Video.
"They're always shuffling between neighbors." Because it takes a large amount of thermal energy to form and reform the bonds between neighboring atoms, such interactions explain why diamond and graphite are so hard to melt.
Other disputes involved owners who rented out their property and a woman who allowed her parents to live in a neighboring house she owns.
As the probability of transmission of the fire from one cell to a neighboring cell increases, the fire's boundary changes from a fractal-like pattern (left) to a rough circle (middle) to a square (right).
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