adjective

• 1Sharing a common border; touching.

  ‘the Southern Ocean is contiguous with the Atlantic’

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  • ‘Geographically my State is contiguous with both of them.’
  • ‘No other farms are contiguous with High House Farm.’
  • ‘In 1998, in an area contiguous with the reserve, the Development Reserve was created.’
  • ‘Because all study sites were contiguous with larger expanses of tallgrass prairie, they were not prairie fragments.’
  • ‘In contrast, Wyoming is contiguous with six states but has only two other state capitals within 500 miles.’
  • ‘The study was conducted in El Paso, Texas, which is contiguous with Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.’
  • ‘Not really tied in all too closely with modesty because these statues are contiguous with nude statues exploring the beauty of the human form.’
  • ‘The continental United States is contiguous with Canada to the north and Mexico to the south.’
  • ‘Thus, spatial heterogeneity in predation pressure is common in both fragmented and contiguous landscapes.’
  • ‘In a second step, clusters merge into a contiguous zone at the cell border that spreads and gives rise to actin waves traveling on a planar membrane.’
  • ‘It is contiguous to a scrub shrub/emergent wetland and bordered to the east by an evergreen forested wetland complex.’
  • ‘They come from a nation contiguous to the U.S. with a long and porous border.’
  • ‘This has been mooted taking into account that a few places in the nearby villages beyond marsh are contiguous to the marsh.’
  • ‘The ideal is for married children to live near their parents, at least in the same city, if not in the same neighborhood or on a contiguous lot.’
  • ‘From an ecological point of view, the park should have encompassed contiguous biodiversity-rich forest tracts that cut across even states.’
  • ‘These valleys form part of a magnificent expanse of contiguous pristine valleys-a complex of giant trees unparalleled on Vancouver Island.’
  • ‘It is a reasonable supposition on our part therefore to consider that, if escorted back to the edge of the contiguous zone, vessels would return to Indonesia.’
  • ‘But to be defensible, land must be contiguous; it cannot be cut through by a grid controlled by an occupying power.’
  • ‘Albanians live in a contiguous area in at least four states.’
  • ‘Under this scheme, tribes and migrants were jointly allotted land for agricultural operations in contiguous areas.’

  Synonyms

  adjacent, neighbouring, adjoining, bordering, next-door

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  1. 1.1Next or together in sequence.
     ‘five hundred contiguous dictionary entries’
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     • ‘We sequenced two contiguous fragments for both clones 1 and 2 and proved that they were identical.’
     • ‘After ordering the probes, the longest existing contiguous sequence of probes that hybridized with the given clone is found.’
     • ‘The contiguous sequence of distribution helps minimize waste.’
     • ‘The sequenced region corresponds to contiguous partial sequences of intron 4 and exon 5 of the bib gene.’
     • ‘For analysis, we used the longest available contiguous sequence.’
     • ‘The three fragments from each allele were then aligned against a reference sequence to create a single contiguous sequence.’
     • ‘We did not obtain a contiguous sequence of the entire region.’
     • ‘Therefore, the sequence at internal nodes will always consist of one contiguous fragment of sequence.’
     • ‘The sequences were assembled into one contiguous sequence by methods described previously.’
     • ‘Running a defragmenter gathers up the pieces and places them together in one contiguous location.’
     • ‘Few detailed studies of large contiguous barley genomic sequences have been published.’
     • ‘An extent is a sequence of contiguous aggregate blocks allocated to an object as a unit.’
     • ‘In what follows a neutral network is a contiguous set of sequences possessing the same fitness.’
     • ‘Phred and Phrap were used to call bases and assemble a contiguous sequence for each strain.’
     • ‘Latin and Greek were long coupled together, because of the contiguous history, mythology and culture from which they descended.’
     • ‘If possible, a computer will store files in contiguous clusters, so all the information is kept close together.’
     • ‘This demonstrated that the component sequences amplified as partial gene segments were contiguous in the genome.’
     • ‘In the case of strain 300, the mutation was a deletion of six contiguous base pairs of the nd1 sequence.’
     • ‘We kept the numbering contiguous in spite of two gaps in the sequence.’
     • ‘Because it is sending packets that are in one contiguous chunk, the gather list has only a single entry.’
     Synonyms

     neighbouring, adjacent, adjoining, next-door, bordering, abutting

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