Contiguous vs Proximate - What's the difference?
contiguous | proximate |
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 :
Close or closest; adjacent.
* J. S. Harford
* T. Burnet
(legal) Immediately preceding or following in a chain of causation.
About to take place; impending.
(linguistics) A grammatical marker in the Algonquian (and some other) languages for a principal third person
As adjectives the difference between contiguous and proximate
is that contiguous is connected; touching; abutting while proximate is close or closest; adjacent.As a noun proximate is
a grammatical marker in the Algonquian (and some other) languages for a principal third person.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
* *proximate
English
Adjective
(-)- proximate ancestors
- the proximate natural causes of it [the deluge]