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contiguity

noun
/ˌkɒn.tɪˈɡjuː.ɪ.ti/UK/ˌkɑn.tɪˈɡju.ɪ.ti/US/ˌkɑn.təˈɡju.ə.ti/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from contiguus
  2. derived from contiguitās
  3. borrowed from contiguïté

Definitions

  1. A state in which two or more physical objects are physically touching one another or in…

    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.

    • In the mechanical conception of ‘cause’ it is…demanded that there should be spatial and temporal contiguity between the movements involved.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for contiguity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA