Contiguous

3 definitions found

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

  Contiguous \Con*tig"u*ous\, a. [L. contiguus; akin to contigere
     to touch on all sides. See {Contingent}.]
     In actual contact; touching; also, adjacent; near;
     neighboring; adjoining.
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           The two halves of the paper did not appear fully
           divided . . . but seemed contiguous at one of their
           angles.                                  --Sir I.
                                                    Newton.
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           Sees no contiguous palace rear its head. --Goldsmith.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Contiguous angles}. See {Adjacent angles}, under {Angle}.
  
     Syn: Adjoining; adjacent. See {Adjacent}. --
          {Con*tig"u*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Con*tig"u*ous*ness}, n.
          [1913 Webster] Continence

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  contiguous
       adj 1: very close or connected in space or time; "contiguous
              events"; "immediate contact"; "the immediate
              vicinity"; "the immediate past" [syn: {immediate}]
       2: connecting without a break; within a common boundary; "the
          48 conterminous states"; "the contiguous 48 states" [syn:
          {conterminous}]
       3: having a common boundary or edge; touching; "abutting lots";
          "adjoining rooms"; "Rhode Island has two bordering states;
          Massachusetts and Conncecticut"; "the side of Germany
          conterminous with France"; "Utah and the contiguous state
          of Idaho"; "neighboring cities" [syn: {abutting}, {adjacent},
           {adjoining}, {conterminous}, {neighboring(a)}]

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

  25 Moby Thesaurus words for "contiguous":
     abutting, adjacent, adjoining, bordering, close, close-by,
     connecting, conterminous, coterminous, end to end, endways,
     endwise, face to face, immediate, joined, juxtaposed,
     juxtapositional, juxtapositive, near, nearby, neighbor,
     neighboring, next, nigh, touching