contiguity

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Given that the Palestinians want a state in Gaza and Judea and Samaria, it's hard to be sympathetic to complaints that non-contiguity will be a problem.

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  1. noun The state of being contiguous.
  2. noun A continuous mass or series.

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  • In looking over the State of New York, upon its canals and railroads, which brought the borders of the State into contiguity, and its citizens in every part into communion with each other, he was sure that all rejoiced, and might well glory in what had been accomplished. —  Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams
  • The proliferation of private islands has a major problem for one of Second Life's most distinguishing features: landscape contiguity, the notion we all share the same world. —  World of SL
  • Given that the Palestinians want a state in Gaza and Judea and Samaria, it's hard to be sympathetic to complaints that non-contiguity will be a problem. —  Soccer Dad
  • The Massachusetts man had long coveted the Mississippian's fine estate; not alone from its tempting contiguity, but also because it looked like a ripe pear that must soon fall from the tree. —  The Death Shot A Story Retold
  • They had kindled their fires in perilous contiguity, and the flames threatened to destroy his crops. —  The History of Tasmania , Volume II
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  1. = French contiguïté = Spanish contiguidad = Portuguese contiguidade = Italian contiguità, from Middle Latin contiguita(t-)s, from Latin contiguus, contiguous: see contiguous.
 

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/kɑntɪˈgjuəti/
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