contiguity
IPA: kʌntˈɪgjˈuʌti
noun
- 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.
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Examples of "contiguity" in Sentences
- Contiguity space is opaquely written.
- Association by contiguity is the root of association by similarity.
- There is an advantage in contiguity-chronological and geographical.
- In a different meaning, contiguity is the state of being contiguous.
- After demonstrating clearly that on the negative side the derivation of "contiguity" was not "con" and
- The numerous trains of associated ideas are divided by Mr. Hume into three classes, which he has termed contiguity, causation, and resemblance.
- This differs from association by contiguity, which is a repetition of experience, and from association by resemblance in the intellectual sense.
- The numerous trains of these associated ideas are divided by Mr. Hume into three classes, which he has termed contiguity, causation, and resemblance.
- Secondly it was held that the ideas arising from these two environmental sources become linked to - gether by principles of association such as contiguity and resemblance.
- Proximity or contiguity is a rhetorical device among others; any writer of modest ability, let alone Proust, attends to various sorts of associations and crosspollinations (I have just attended to double-s sounds).
- One definite kind of contiguity, consisting of mutual approximation of the mucous membranes of the lips in the form of a kiss, has received among the most civilized nations a sexual value, though the parts of the body concerned do not belong to the sexual apparatus but form the entrance to the digestive tract.
- Now, motion in a body is known to be capable of being imparted to another body contiguous to it; and the intervention of a hypothetical elastic fluid occupying the space between the sun and the earth, supplies the contiguity which is the only condition wanting, and which can be supplied by no supposition but that of an intervening medium.
- Unfortunately, the above properties-based account of a field is incompatible with the alternative approach to space-time, which takes it to be merely a system of relations (such as contiguity) between physical bodies: if the field quantities are properties of space-time regions and the latter are understood, ultimately, to be reducible to relations between physical objects, where the latter are conceived of in field-theoretic terms, then a circularity appears to arise.
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