being contiguous or adjacent

  • 1adjacent — adjacent, adjoining, contiguous, abutting, tangent, conterminous, juxtaposed mean being in close proximity. Adjacent does not always imply actual contact but it does indicate that nothing of the same kind comes between; adjacent lots are in… …

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  • 2contiguous — Adjacent or in actual contact. * * * con·tig·u·ous kən tig yə wəs adj being in actual contact: touching along a boundary or at a point con·ti·gu·ity .känt ə gyü ət ē n, pl it·ies con·tig·u·ous·ly adv * * * con·tig·u·ous (kən tigґu …

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  • 3adjacent — adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French or Latin; Anglo French, ajesaunt, from Latin adjacent , adjacens, present participle of adjacēre to lie near, from ad + jacēre to lie; akin to Latin jacere to throw more at jet Date: 15th… …

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  • 4contiguous — adjective Etymology: Latin contiguus, from contingere to have contact with more at contingent Date: circa 1609 1. being in actual contact ; touching along a boundary or at a point 2. of angles adjacent 2 3. next or near …

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  • 5contiguous in contact — connected connected adj. 1. p. p. of {connect}. [Narrower terms: {abutting, adjacent, adjoining, bordering(prenominal), conterminous, coterminous, contiguous}] [Narrower terms: {adjunctive}] [Narrower terms: {affined}] [Narrower terms:… …

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  • 6contiguous — 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… …

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  • 7abutting adjacent adjoining borderingprenominal conterminous coterminous contiguous — connected connected adj. 1. p. p. of {connect}. [Narrower terms: {abutting, adjacent, adjoining, bordering(prenominal), conterminous, coterminous, contiguous}] [Narrower terms: {adjunctive}] [Narrower terms: {affined}] [Narrower terms:… …

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  • 8abutment — n. 1. Abutting, being contiguous or adjacent, adjoining, adjacency, contiguity, juxtaposition. 2. Shore pier, end pier, terminal pier, terminal support …

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  • 9List of enclaves and exclaves — In political geography, an enclave is a piece of land which is totally surrounded by a foreign territory, and an exclave is one which is politically attached to a larger piece but not actually contiguous with it. Many entities are both enclaves… …

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  • 10Contiguity — A contiguity is a continuous mass, or a series of things in contact or proximity. In a different meaning, contiguity is the state of being contiguous.[1] The concept was first set out in the Law of Contiguity, one of Aristotle s Laws of… …

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