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contiguous

adj
/kənˈtɪɡ.ju.əs/UK/kənˈtɪɡ.jʉ.əs/

Etymology

From Latin contiguus (“touching”), from contingere (“to touch”); see contingent, contact, contagion.

  1. derived from contiguus — “touching”

Definitions

  1. Connected

    Connected; touching; abutting.

  2. Adjacent

    Adjacent; neighboring.

    • 1730–1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland 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.

  3. Connecting without a break.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Derived

contiguosity, contiguous 48, contiguously, contiguousness, contiguous United States, discontiguous, incontiguous, multicontiguous, non-contiguous, noncontiguous, overcontiguous, pseudocontiguous, semicontiguous, subcontiguous, uncontiguous

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at contiguous. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at contiguous. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at contiguous

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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