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contiguous
/kənˈtɪɡ.ju.əs/
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What does contiguous mean?
adjective
- (figuratively) Connected; touching; abutting.
- Adjacent; neighboring.
- Connecting without a break.
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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.
These three tribes, speaking dialects of the same stock language, inhabiting contiguous territory, formed a league for offensive and defensive purposes.
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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.
During the night they revel in the cultivated fields contiguous to the jungle, and they destroy more by rooting up than by actually eating.
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.