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English

From French contiguïté, from Late Latin contiguit?s, from Latin contiguus (“bordering upon”), from conting? (“I touch or border upon”).

contiguity (countable and uncountable, plural contiguities)

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.
- 1958–1960, R.S. Peters, The Concept of Motivation, Routledge & Kegan Paul (second edition), chapter i: “Types of Explanation in Psychological Theories”, page 12:
  In the mechanical conception of ‘cause’ it is…demanded that there should be spatial and temporal contiguity between the movements involved.

Webster, Noah (1828) , “contiguity”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
contiguity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
“contiguity” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
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