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adjective
- 1. sharing a common border; touching: "the Southern Ocean is contiguous with the Atlantic"
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CONTIGUOUS definition: 1. next to or touching another, usually similar, thing: 2. next to or touching another, usually…. Learn more.
The meaning of CONTIGUOUS is being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point. How to use contiguous in a sentence. Did you know? Synonym Discussion of Contiguous.
Use the adjective contiguous when you want to describe one thing touching another thing, or next to it but not actually touching.
Things that are contiguous are next to each other or touch each other. [formal] Its vineyards are virtually contiguous with those of Ausone. [ + with] ...two years of travel throughout the 48 contiguous states.
CONTIGUOUS meaning: 1. next to or touching another, usually similar, thing: 2. next to or touching another, usually…. Learn more.
adj. 1. Sharing an edge or boundary; touching. 2. Neighboring; adjacent. 3. a. Connecting without a break: the 48 contiguous states. b. Connected in time; uninterrupted: served two contiguous terms in office. [From Latin contiguus, from contingere, contig-, to touch; see contact .] con·tig′u·ous·ly adv. con·tig′u·ous·ness n.
Contiguous definition: touching; in contact.. See examples of CONTIGUOUS used in a sentence.
Touching at the edge, at a point, or along a boundary. (US, geography) The contiguous continental states area of the United States of America, comprising 48 states in number, and the District of Columbia, excluding Alaska and Hawaii.
Definition of contiguous adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
contiguous meaning, definition, what is contiguous: next to something, or next to each other...: Learn more.
