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Contiguous vs Adjoin - What's the difference?

contiguous | adjoin |

As an adjective contiguous

is connected; touching; abutting.

As a verb adjoin is

to be in contact or connection with.

contiguous

English

Adjective

(-)
  • connected; touching; abutting
  • adjacent; neighbouring/neighboring
  • * 1730–1774 , , Introductory to Switzerland
    • 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;
  • * 1835 , William Scoresby, Memorials of the Sea (page 59)
    • 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.
  • connecting without a break
    • The forty-eight contiguous states.
  • * 1886 , Frank Hamilton Cushing, A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuñi Culture Growth :
    • Supposing three such houses to be contiguous to a central one, each separated from the latter by a straight wall.

    Related terms

    * contiguity

    Derived terms

    * contiguousness

    See also

    * conterminous

    References

    * *

    adjoin

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be in contact or connection with.
    • The living room and dining room adjoin each other.
  • (transitive, mathematics, chiefly, algebra, and, number theory) To extend an algebraic object (e.g. a field, a ring etc.) by adding to it (an element not belonging to it) and all finite power series of (the element).
    • \textbf{Q}\left(\sqrt{2}\right) can be obtained from \textbf{Q} by adjoining \sqrt{2} to \textbf{Q} .

    Derived terms

    * adjoining

    Related terms

    * adjunction