Contiguity Definition

kŏntĭ-gyo͝oĭ-tē
contiguities
noun
contiguities
The state of being contiguous; nearness or contact.
Webster's New World
A continuous mass or series.
American Heritage

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.

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Other Word Forms of Contiguity

Noun

Singular:
contiguity
Plural:
contiguities

Origin of Contiguity

  • From French contiguïté, from Late Latin contiguitās, from Latin contiguus (“bordering upon”), from contingō (“I touch or border upon”).

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Contiguity Sentence Examples

  • A world of temporal repetition is a world that can never escape the power of spatial contiguity.

  • Thus transition was made possible from an agnatic society based on blood ties to one based on contiguity.

  • If n +4 be positive, the attraction of infinitely distant parts contributes to the result; while if n+4 be negative, the parts in immediate contiguity act with infinite power.

  • The elementary spatial relation Herbart conceives to be "the contiguity (Aneinander) of two points," so that every "pure and independent line" is discrete.

  • Interestingly tho geographical contiguity was never a major consideration governing Greece and Turkeys ' membership.

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