Nearest neighbor may refer to:
- Nearest neighbor search in pattern recognition and in computational geometry
- Nearest-neighbor interpolation for interpolating data
- Nearest neighbor graph in geometry
- The k-nearest neighbor algorithm in machine learning, an application of generalized forms of nearest neighbor search and interpolation
- The nearest neighbour algorithm for approximately solving the travelling salesman problem
- The nearest neighbor method for determining the thermodynamics of nucleic acids
- The nearest neighbor method for calculating distances between clusters in hierarchical clustering.
Famous quotes containing the words nearest and/or neighbor:
“Some friends play at friendship but a true friend sticks closer than ones nearest kin.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 18:24.
“Mislike me not for my complexion,
The shadowed livery of the burnished sun,
To whom I am a neighbor and near bred.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)