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contiguity
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun contiguity has 1 sense
- contiguity(n = noun.attribute) adjacency, contiguousness - the attribute of being so near as to be touching; Array is a kind of closeness, nearness
Derived forms adjective contiguous1, adjective contiguous3, adjective contiguous2
CIDE DICTIONARY
contiguity, n. [Cf. F. contiguité, LL. contiguitas.].
The state of being contiguous; intimate association; nearness; proximity. [1913 Webster]
"The convicinity and contiguity of the two parishes."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
contiguity, n.
1 being contiguous; proximity; contact.
2 Psychol. the proximity of ideas or impressions in place or time, as a principle of association.
1 being contiguous; proximity; contact.
2 Psychol. the proximity of ideas or impressions in place or time, as a principle of association.
THESAURUS
contiguity
abutment, abuttal, accord, addition, adjacency, adjoiningness, adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity, alliance, apposition, approximation, appulse, assemblage, association, bond, closeness, combination, conjugation, conjunction, connectedness, connection, conterminousness, contiguousness, contrariety, coterminousness, dealings, deduction, disjunction, filiation, homology, immediacy, intercourse, intimacy, junction, juxtaposition, liaison, link, linkage, linking, mutual attraction, nearness, perigee, perihelion, propinquity, proximity, rapport, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, similarity, sympathy, syzygy, tie, tie-in, unionROGET THESAURUS
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Nearness
N nearness, proximity, propinquity, vicinity, vicinage, neighborhood, adjacency, contiguity, short distance, short step, short cut, earshot, close quarters, stone's throw, bow shot, gun shot, pistol shot, hair's breadth, span, purlieus, neighborhood, vicinage, environs, alentours, suburbs, confines, banlieue, borderland, whereabouts, bystander, neighbor, borderer, approach, convergence, perihelion, near, nigh, close at hand, near at hand, close, neighboring, bordering upon, contiguous, adjacent, adjoining, proximate, proximal, at hand, handy, near the mark, near run, home, intimate, near, nigh, hard by, fast by, close to, close upon, hard upon, at the point of, next door to, within reach, within call, within hearing, within earshot, within an ace of, but a step, not far from, at no great distance, on the verge of, on the brink of, on the skirts of, in the environs, at one's door, at one's feet, at one's elbow, at one's finger's end, at one's side, on the tip of one's tongue, under one's nose, within a stone's throw, in sight of, in presence of, at close quarters, cheek by jole, cheek by jowl, beside, alongside, side by side, tete-a-tete, in juxtaposition, yardarm to yardarm, at the heels of, on the confines of, at the threshold, bordering upon, verging to, in the way, about, hereabouts, thereabouts, roughly, in round numbers, approximately, approximatively, as good as, well-nigh.Contiguity
N contiguity, contact, proximity, apposition, abuttal, juxtaposition, abutment, osculation, meeting, appulse, rencontre, rencounter, syzygy, coincidence, coexistence, adhesion, touching, (touch), borderland, frontier, tangent, abutter, contiguous, touching, in contact, conterminous, end to end, osculatory, pertingent, tangential, hand to hand, close to, with no interval.
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