Get to know Contiguity better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like adjacency or nearness.
Contiguity in a sentence
Contiguity meaning
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.
Using Contiguity
- The main meaning on this page is: 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.
- Useful related words include: adjacency, contiguousness, nearness, closeness.
- In the example corpus, contiguity often appears in combinations such as: contiguity and.
Context around Contiguity
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 7 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Contiguity
- In this selection, "contiguity" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, poor, enabling, provide, impacted and compactness stand out and add context to how "contiguity" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and this contiguity impacted across and antecedence and contiguity which we. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "contiguity" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with contiguity
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Burnham grew up in the northern-most sector termed Subryanville/Kitty, and this contiguity impacted across ethnicities. (17 words)
Aside from satisfying federally mandated contiguity and population equality criteria, the LSB mandates unity of counties and cities. (18 words)
In subsequent years, Congress expanded on the requirements, successively adding contiguity, compactness, and substantial equality of population to the districting requirements. (21 words)
An occasion of singular causation is a particular occurrence of a definite complex of events that are physically linked by antecedence and contiguity, which we may here recognize as criteria 1. and 2. of Hume mentioned just above. (38 words)
Hume said that when two events are causally conjoined, a necessary connection underpins the conjunction: Shall we rest contented with these two relations of contiguity and succession, as affording a complete idea of causation? (34 words)
Poor contiguity of cultivated land mainly occurred on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, in southern China, on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and on the south and northwest of the Loess Plateau. (30 words)
Hume said that when two events are causally conjoined, a necessary connection underpins the conjunction: Shall we rest contented with these two relations of contiguity and succession, as affording a complete idea of causation? (34 words)
Example sentences (12)
Burnham grew up in the northern-most sector termed Subryanville/Kitty, and this contiguity impacted across ethnicities.
Poor contiguity of cultivated land mainly occurred on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, in southern China, on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and on the south and northwest of the Loess Plateau.
By contrast, the Netanyahu’s government’s coalition whip Miki Zohar (Likud) hailed the development as enabling contiguity between Jewish Jerusalem neighborhoods.
The map will be complicated, and in order to provide contiguity for Jewish and Palestinian areas, will include bypass roads and tunnels.
An occasion of singular causation is a particular occurrence of a definite complex of events that are physically linked by antecedence and contiguity, which we may here recognize as criteria 1. and 2. of Hume mentioned just above.
Aside from satisfying federally mandated contiguity and population equality criteria, the LSB mandates unity of counties and cities.
He explains that there are at least three kinds of associations between ideas: resemblance, contiguity in space-time, and cause-and-effect.
Hume said that when two events are causally conjoined, a necessary connection underpins the conjunction: Shall we rest contented with these two relations of contiguity and succession, as affording a complete idea of causation?
In subsequent years, Congress expanded on the requirements, successively adding contiguity, compactness, and substantial equality of population to the districting requirements.
In the extreme view, Italic did not exist, but the different groups descended directly from Indo-European and converged because of geographic contiguity.
This helps with appending elements at the array's end, but inserting into (or removing from) middle positions still carries prohibitive costs due to data moving to maintain contiguity.
Wolves in the eastern Balkans benefitted from the region's contiguity with the former Soviet Union and large areas of plains, mountains and farmlands.
Common combinations with contiguity
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: