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adjective

contiguous

very close or connected in space or time

In a sentence

Six example sentences with contiguous, each labelled with its topic.

  • The two galleries are contiguous, sharing a wall so thin that visitors hear the lecture next door through the plaster.

    Architecture

  • The forty-eight contiguous states can be crossed by car alone, while reaching Alaska or Hawaii still requires a ferry or flight.

    Travel

  • Rangers linked the two reserves with a wooded corridor so the herds could move across contiguous habitat instead of crossing farmland.

    Environment

  • The file must be written to contiguous blocks on the disk, or the old drive slows to a crawl.

    Technology

  • A voting district must be contiguous, so a mapmaker cannot join two suburbs across the lake.

    Politics

  • Under the ordinance a permit covers only contiguous parcels, so the two farms needed separate applications.

    Law

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