Contiguous

Etymology
From contiguus: < contingere:; see contingent:, contact:, contagion:.

Adjective

 * 1) connected; touching; abutting
 * 2) adjacent; neighbouring/neighboring
 * 3) connecting without a break
 * The forty-eight contiguous states.
 * 1) * 1886, Frank Hamilton Cushing, A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuñi Culture Growth:
 * Supposing three such houses to be contiguous to a central one, each separated from the latter by a straight wall.

Related terms

 * contiguity

Derived terms

 * contiguousness

Thesaurus
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

Translations

 * Bulgarian: допиращ се,
 * Catalan: contigu
 * Finnish:, vierekkäinen,
 * French:
 * German: ;
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: érintkező, összeérő,  összekapcsolt,  egybekapcsolt


 * Icelandic: aðlægur, aðlæg , aðlægt ; samlægur , samlæg , samlægt , samliggjandi
 * Italian:
 * Russian:, соприкасающийся, граничащий, прилегающий
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: съседен
 * Catalan: contigu
 * Finnish: ; -
 * French:, voisin, adjacent
 * German: angrenzend; ;
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, melletti


 * Icelandic: aðlægur, aðlæg , aðlægt ; samlægur , samlæg , samlægt , samliggjandi
 * Italian:
 * Russian: соседний, близлежащий, прилегающий
 * Spanish: vecino, cercano, contiguo, adyacente
 * Swedish: närliggande


 * Catalan: contigu
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, attenant
 * German: zusammenhängend
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: egybefüggő


 * Icelandic: samlægur, samlæg , samlægt , samliggjandi
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: sammenhengende
 * Russian: непрерывный
 * Spanish:, colindante