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contiguous

/kənˈtɪɡ.ju.əs/

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What does contiguous mean?

adjective

  1. (figuratively) Connected; touching; abutting.
  2. Adjacent; neighboring.
  3. Connecting without a break.

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IPA pronunciation

/kənˈtɪɡ.ju.əs/

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Under cover of a contiguous barn, the artillery presented the means of forcing the building and reducing the garrison to submission.
William Gilmore SimmsThe Life of Francis MarionProject Gutenberg ebook #843
These three tribes, speaking dialects of the same stock language, inhabiting contiguous territory, formed a league for offensive and defensive purposes.
Emory Adams AllenThe Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished RacesProject Gutenberg ebook #2873
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The method in every case has been to apply different amounts of water throughout the growing season on contiguous plats of uniform land.
John Andreas WidtsoeDry-Farming : A System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low RainfallProject Gutenberg ebook #4924
During the night they revel in the cultivated fields contiguous to the jungle, and they destroy more by rooting up than by actually eating.
James InglisSport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo PlanterProject Gutenberg ebook #10818
But the circumstance was sufficient to lead him to select Tess in preference to the other pretty milkmaids when he wished to contemplate contiguous womankind.
Thomas HardyTess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure WomanProject Gutenberg ebook #110