contiguity
Noun
Meaning
The state of being contiguous; intimate association; nearness; proximity.
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We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state ...
The normal present connects the past and the future through limitation. Contiguity results, crystallization by means of solidification. There also exists, however, a spiritual present that identifies past and future through dissolution, and this mixture is the element, the atmosphere of the poet.
We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.
Aside from satisfying federally mandated contiguity and population equality criteria, the LSB mandates unity of counties and cities.
An occasion of singular causation is a particular occurrence of a definite complex of events that are physically linked by antecedence and contiguity, which we may here recognize as criteria 1. and 2. of Hume mentioned just above.
He explains that there are at least three kinds of associations between ideas: resemblance, contiguity in space-time, and cause-and-effect.