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Contiguous

//kənˈtɪɡ.jʉ.əs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Connected; touching; abutting. not-comparable
  2. 2
    Adjacent; neighboring. not-comparable

    "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;"

  3. 3
    Connecting without a break. not-comparable

    "the forty-eight contiguous states"

Adjective
  1. 1
    very close or connected in space or time wordnet
  2. 2
    having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching wordnet
  3. 3
    connecting without a break; within a common boundary wordnet

Etymology

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

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