Contiguity

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Contiguity \Con`ti*gu"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. contiguit['e], LL.
     contiguitas.]
     The state of being contiguous; intimate association;
     nearness; proximity.
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           The convicinity and contiguity of the two parishes.
                                                    --T. Warton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  contiguity
       n : the attribute of being so near as to be touching [syn: {adjacency},
            {contiguousness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "contiguity":
     abutment, abuttal, accord, addition, adjacency, adjoiningness,
     adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity, alliance, apposition,
     approximation, appulse, assemblage, association, bond, closeness,
     combination, conjugation, conjunction, connectedness, connection,
     conterminousness, contiguousness, contrariety, coterminousness,
     dealings, deduction, disjunction, filiation, homology, immediacy,
     intercourse, intimacy, junction, juxtaposition, liaison, link,
     linkage, linking, mutual attraction, nearness, perigee, perihelion,
     propinquity, proximity, rapport, relatedness, relation, relations,
     relationship, similarity, sympathy, syzygy, tie, tie-in, union