contiguity
[kon-ti-gyoo-i-tee]
- the state of being contiguous; contact or proximity.
- a series of things in continuous connection; a continuous mass or extent.
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Origin of contiguity
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Contemporary Examples
One can't, with a straight face, call this territorial "contiguity," especially since that road would be easy for Israel to close.
Historical Examples
It is brought down by some to contiguity, by most others to resemblance.
Essay on the Creative ImaginationTh. Ribot
This is a low form of memory, resting on association by contiguity.
Essay on the Creative ImaginationTh. Ribot
People need to touch the facts, and nearness in time is contiguity.
Backlog StudiesCharles Dudley Warner
There was contiguity but not much sociability in our neighborhood.
Urban SketchesBret Harte
The relation between God and man is a relation of contiguity.
The Theistic Conception of the WorldB. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
Word Origin and History for contiguity
n.
1640s, from French contiguité from Latin contiguitas, from contiguus (see contiguous).
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
contiguity
(kŏn′tĭ-gyōō′ĭ-tē)- The state of being contiguous.
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