Roget's Thesaurus: Entry 199 (Contiguity)

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#199. Contiguity.-- N. contiguity, contact, proximity, apposition, abuttal[obs], juxtaposition; abutment, osculation; meeting, appulse[obs], rencontre[obs], rencounter[obs], syzygy[Astron], coincidence, coexistence; adhesion &c. 46; touching &c. v. (see touch 379).

borderland; frontier &c. (limit) 233; tangent; abutter.

V. be contiguous &c. adj.; join, adjoin, abut on, march with; graze, touch, meet, osculate, come in contact, coincide; coexist; adhere &c. 46.

[transitive][cause to be contiguous] juxtapose; contact; join (unite) 43; link (vinculum) 45.

Adj. contiguous; touching &c. v.; in contact &c. n.; conterminous, end to end, osculatory; pertingent|; tangential.

hand to hand; close to &c. (near) 197; with no interval &c. 198.