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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. very close or connected in space or time;
- Example: "contiguous events"
- Example: "immediate contact"
- Example: "the immediate vicinity"
- Example: "the immediate past"
[syn: contiguous, immediate]

2. connecting without a break; within a common boundary;
- Example: "the 48 conterminous states"
- Example: "the contiguous 48 states"
[syn: conterminous, contiguous]

3. having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching;
- Example: "Rhode Island has two bordering states Massachusetts and Conncecticut";
- Example: "the side of Germany conterminous with France"
- Example: "Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho"
- Example: "neighboring cities"
[syn: adjacent, conterminous, contiguous, neighboring(a)]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Contiguous \Con*tig"u*ous\, a. [L. contiguus; akin to contigere
   to touch on all sides. See Contingent.]
   In actual contact; touching; also, adjacent; near;
   neighboring; adjoining.
   [1913 Webster]

         The two halves of the paper did not appear fully
         divided . . . but seemed contiguous at one of their
         angles.                                  --Sir I.
                                                  Newton.
   [1913 Webster]

         Sees no contiguous palace rear its head. --Goldsmith.
   [1913 Webster]

   Contiguous angles. See Adjacent angles, under Angle.

   Syn: Adjoining; adjacent. See Adjacent. --
        Con*tig"u*ous*ly, adv. -- Con*tig"u*ous*ness, n.
        [1913 Webster] Continence


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

25 Moby Thesaurus words for "contiguous":
   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