Trouble Understanding "Neighbors"

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Hi all,
I'm a student using Matrix Profile to do time series comparisons, and I'm having a hard time understanding what "neighbors" are in MPF. I understand the concept of a "nearest neighbor" being a subsequence with the smallest Euclidean distance from a given subsequence, but there is an input to at least one MPF function called "maxneighbors." I couldn't find any explanation of this input on the API or any other resources I could find. What are neighbors, why do they appear on graphs of motifs that MPF generates, and what distinguishes them from motifs?

Thank you for any help!