contiguous
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Latin contiguus (“touching”), from contingere (“to touch”); see contingent, contact, contagion.
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contiguous (not comparable)
- connected; touching; abutting
- adjacent; neighbouring/neighboring
- connecting without a break
- The forty-eight contiguous states.
- 1886, Frank Hamilton Cushing, A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuñi Culture Growth:
- Supposing three such houses to be contiguous to a central one, each separated from the latter by a straight wall.
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connected, touching, abutting
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adjacent, neighboring
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connecting without a break
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[edit] See also
[edit] References
- contiguous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- contiguous in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911