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  • 41contiguous — con|tig|u|ous [ kən tıgjuəs ] adjective FORMAL or TECHNICAL next to each other or joining each other …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 42contiguous — con·tig·u·ous || kÉ™n tɪgjÊŠÉ™s adj. successive; adjacent; bordering; touching …

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  • 43contiguous — [kən tɪgjʊəs] adjective sharing a common border. ↘next or together in sequence. Derivatives contiguously adverb Origin C16: from L. contiguus touching , from contingere (see contingent) + ous …

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  • 44contiguous — a. Touching, meeting, conterminous, adjacent, adjoining, in contact …

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  • 45contiguous —   Touching or neighboring, e.g. a common border between two countries …

    Expanded glossary of Cycad terms

  • 46contiguous — adj 1. touching, meeting, joining, conjoining, connecting, contactual, abutting, tangential, tangent, Obs. attingent, Obs. attiguous; bordering, skirting, edging, juxtapositional, juxtaposed, proximate, in close proximity, next to, Inf. right… …

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  • 47contiguous — con·tig·u·ous …

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  • 48contiguous — UK [kənˈtɪɡjʊəs] / US [kənˈtɪɡjuəs] adjective formal next to each other, or joining each other …

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  • 49contiguous — con•tig•u•ous [[t]kənˈtɪg yu əs[/t]] adj. 1) touching; in contact 2) being in close proximity without touching; near 3) adjacent in time • Etymology: 1605–15; < L contiguus bordering upon =con con +tig , var. s. of tingere, comb. form of… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 50contiguous — /kənˈtɪgjuəs / (say kuhn tigyoohuhs) adjective 1. touching; in contact. 2. in close proximity without actually touching; near. {Latin contiguus touching} –contiguously, adverb –contiguousness, noun …