Contiguity vs Contiguous - What's the difference?
contiguity | contiguous | Related terms |
A state in which two or more physical objects are physically touching one another or in which sections of a plane border on one another.
* 1958–1960 , (second edition), chapter i: “Types of Explanation in Psychological Theories”, page 12:
connected; touching; abutting
adjacent; neighbouring/neighboring
* 1730–1774 , , Introductory to Switzerland
* 1835 , William Scoresby, Memorials of the Sea (page 59)
connecting without a break
* 1886 , Frank Hamilton Cushing, A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuñi Culture Growth :
Contiguous is a related term of contiguity.
As a noun contiguity
is a state in which two or more physical objects are physically touching one another or in which sections of a plane border on one another.As an adjective contiguous is
connected; touching; abutting.contiguity
English
Noun
(contiguities)- In the mechanical conception of ‘cause’ it is…demanded that there should be spatial and temporal contiguity between the movements involved.
Synonyms
* (state in which objects are physically touching) synapse (of neurons) Medical Physiology, Boron & Boulpaep, ISBN 1-4160-2328-3, Elsevier Saunders 2005. Updated edition. page 295.References
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English
Adjective
(-)- Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small,
- He sees his little lot the lot of all;
- Sees no contiguous palace rear its head
- To shame the meanness of his humble shed;
- the usual quietness of the day, with us, was broken in upon by the shout of success from the pursuing boats, followed by vehement respondings from the contiguous ship.
- The forty-eight contiguous states.
- Supposing three such houses to be contiguous to a central one, each separated from the latter by a straight wall.