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Definition of Contiguity
1. Noun. The attribute of being so near as to be touching.
Generic synonyms: Closeness, Nearness
Derivative terms: Adjacent, Adjacent, Adjacent, Contiguous, Contiguous, Contiguous, Contiguous, Contiguous
Definition of Contiguity
1. n. The state of being contiguous; intimate association; nearness; proximity.
Definition of Contiguity
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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Contiguity
1. [n -TIES]
Medical Definition of Contiguity
1. 1. Contact without actual continuity, e.g., the contact of the bones entering into the formation of a cranial suture. Compare: continuity. 2. Occurrence of two or more objects, events, or mental impressions together in space (spatial contiguity) or time (temporal contiguity). Origin: L. Contiguus, touching, fr. Contingo, to touch (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contiguity
Literary usage of Contiguity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1907)
"One has to admit that geographic contiguity with an occupied region gives ...
(g) Limits of the principle of contiguity. The principle of contiguity plays ..."
2. Psychology: A Study of Mental Life by Robert Sessions Woodworth (1921)
"ASSOCIATION BY contiguity This reduction of all the laws of association to one
great law was no mean achievement; and the la\\{ of association by contiguity ..."
3. A History of the Association Psychology by Howard Crosby Warren (1921)
"Laws of Association: Similarity and contiguity The classic laws of similarity
and contiguity have been submitted to experimental study. ..."
4. Outlines of psychology, with special references to the theory of education by James Sully (1888)
"contiguity associates things which are adjacent in our experience, ... Relation of
Similarity to contiguity. The exact relation between he two laws of ..."
5. The Teacher's Handbook of Psychology: On the Basis of "Outlines of Psychology" by James Sully (1897)
"By the name contiguity is here meant that the mental connection established ...
The Law of contiguity may be stated briefly as follows : Presentations and, ..."
6. A Manual of Psychology by George Frederick Stout (1915)
"(a) contiguity (Continuity of Attention). The law of contiguity, as ordinarily
understood, may be stated as follows: If B has been perceived or thought of ..."
7. Elements of Mental Philosophy: Abridged and Designed as a Text-book for by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1854)
"contiguity the third general or primary law. Those thoughts and feelings which
have been connected together by nearness of time and place, ..."
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