contiguous - use in sentences

Preposition: on

  • disk: SIDEWAYS Generally attempts to store data in temporary disk files using column-oriented storage ( elements of each column are contiguous on disk ).

Modifies a noun

  • cull: Indeed, whenever animal owners challenged the legality of the contiguous cull, MAFF found some way to back down.
  • byte: The section of contiguous bytes can be either forward or backward from the current offset in the file.
  • pixel: If the number of contiguous pixels exceeds a user-supplied minimum, then these pixels are defined as being an object.
  • segment: The view shows that 24 of the 64 upper sectors will have been replaced in one contiguous segment - over a third.
  • block: Data may be divided up into several contiguous blocks.
  • premise: On other contiguous premises, susceptible animals will still be killed.

Modifying Another Word

  • geographically: Regions of land purchased by members of the same group will be geographically contiguous where possible.
  • necessarily: The allocated colors in a shared colormap do not generally start at zero and they are not necessarily contiguous.
  • not: Postcode sectors are not contiguous with health board or council boundaries.
  • almost: PHYSICAL FEATURES The complex comprises four almost contiguous protected areas running east-west 230 km to the Cambodian border.
  • essentially: Modern forms of Buddhism are essentially contiguous with traditional forms despite different social arenas and cultural contexts.
  • always: Allocation becomes trivial, since all free space is always contiguous.

Used with adjective complement

  • lie: The beds of ironstone and clunch, lying contiguous to the coal strata, mostly exhibit vegetable impressions.
  • become: The other wing, the internationalists, became contiguous with the Bolsheviks.

Preposition: in

  • memory: In other words, data in the first index is contiguous in memory, forming a column of data.

Preposition: with

  • area: Keeping areas contiguous with district areas would, however, lose the operational efficiency of common destinations.

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