Contiguous
//kənˈtɪɡ.jʉ.əs// adj
adj ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Connected; touching; abutting. not-comparable
- 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 Connecting without a break. not-comparable
"the forty-eight contiguous states"
Adjective
- 1 very close or connected in space or time wordnet
- 2 having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching wordnet
- 3 connecting without a break; within a common boundary wordnet
Antonyms
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More examples"Almost all implementations of virtual memory divide the virtual address space of an application program into pages; a page is a block of contiguous virtual memory addresses."
Etymology
From Latin contiguus (“touching”), from contingere (“to touch”); see contingent, contact, contagion.
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