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contiguities

contiguities is the plural of contiguity.

Meaning of contiguity

Noun

contiguity (countable and uncountable, plural contiguities)

  1. 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.
    • In the mechanical conception of ‘cause’ it is…demanded that there should be spatial and temporal contiguity between the movements involved.1958–1960, R.S. Peters, The Concept of Motivation, Routledge & Kegan Paul (second edition), chapter i: “Types of Explanation in Psychological Theories”, page 12
    Synonyms:
    synapse

Questions about contiguities

What is contiguities the plural of?
Contiguities is the plural of contiguity.

Words near contiguities in the dictionary

  1. contignations
  2. contigs
  3. contiguate
  4. contiguation
  5. contiguations
  6. contiguities
  7. contiguity
  8. contiguosities
  9. contiguosity
  10. contiguous
  11. contiguous 48

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Adapted from Wiktionary: contiguities (page history and authors); contiguity (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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