contiguity
nounUK /ˌkɒn.tɪˈɡjuː.ɪ.ti/ · US /ˌkɑn.tɪˈɡju.ɪ.ti/
Etymology From French contiguïté (whence -ity), from Late Latin contiguitās, from Latin contiguus (“bordering upon”), from contingō (“to touch or border upon”).
1
A state in which two or more physical objects are physically touching one another or in which sections of a plane border on one another.
- In the mechanical conception of ‘cause’ it is…demanded that there should be spatial and temporal contiguity between the movements involved.1958–1960, R.S. Peters, The Concept of Motivation, Routledge & Kegan Paul (second edition), chapter i: “Types of Explanation in Psychological Theories”, page 12
- Synonyms
- synapse
- Antonyms
- discontiguity
- Derived terms
- noncontiguity