Contiguous vs Juxtaposition - What's the difference?
contiguous | juxtaposition |
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 :
The nearness of objects with no delimiter.
# (grammar) An absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together.
# (mathematics) An absence of operators in an expression.
#* 2007 , Lawrence Moss and Hans-Jörg Tiede, Applications of Modal Logic in Linguistics'', in: P. Blackburn et al (eds), ''Handbook of Modal Logic , Elsevier, p. 1054
The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together.
# (arts) Two or more contrasting sounds, colours, styles etc. placed together for stylistic effect.
# (rhetoric) The close placement of two ideas to imply a link that may not exist.
As an adjective contiguous
is connected; touching; abutting.As a noun juxtaposition is
the nearness of objects with no delimiter.As a verb juxtaposition is
to place in juxtaposition.contiguous
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.
Derived terms
* contiguousnessSee also
* conterminousReferences
* *juxtaposition
English
Noun
(en noun)- Example: mother father'' instead of ''mother and father
- Using juxtaposition for multiplication saves space when writing longer expressions. collapses to .
- A fundamental operation on strings is string concatenation which we will denote by juxtaposition .
- There was a poignant juxtaposition between the boys laughing in the street and the girl crying on the balcony above.
- The juxtaposition of the bright yellows on the dark background made the painting appear three dimensional.
- Example: In 1965 the government was elected; in 1965 the economy took a dive.