contiguity

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   the attribute of being so near as to be touching

From French contiguïté, from Late Latin contiguitās, from Latin contiguus (“bordering upon”), from contingō (“to touch or border upon”).

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