Vocabulary Word
Word: contiguous
Definition: adjacent to; touching upon
Definition: adjacent to; touching upon
Sentences Containing 'contiguous'
where the house stands like a fungus in a muckheap, chambers for men horses, oxen, and swine, cleansed and uncleansed, all contiguous to one another!
He has already dug up all the garden two or three times to find the famous spring, and, being unsuccessful, he will soon purchase all the contiguous houses.
The baroness returned to the hotel with as much caution as Eugenie used in leaving it; she ran lightly up stairs, and with an aching heart entered her apartment, contiguous, as we know, to that of Eugenie.
Let all the different shades of that colour, except that single one, be placed before him, descending gradually from the deepest to the lightest; it is plain that he will perceive a blank, where that shade is wanting, and will be sensible that there is a greater distance in that place between the contiguous colours than in any other.
The thinking on any object readily transports the mind to what is contiguous; but it is only the actual presence of an object, that transports it with a superior vivacity.
The project lies to the west of the Guerrero Gold Belt and is contiguous with the Aurea Norte project to the north.
Seattle is also referred to informally as the "Gateway to Alaska" for being the nearest city in the contiguous US from Alaska, "Rain City" for its frequent cloudy rainy weather, and "Jet City" from the local influence of Boeing.
All elevations in the 48 states of the contiguous United States include an elevation adjustment from the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29) to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88).
The MAX Memory is a 128 Mb dongle by Datel that contains up to 2043 blocks of data - the largest amount of contiguous space compatible with the GameCube.
The expansion of interspecies selection and intraspecies selection is a driving force behind species fission: the separation of a single contiguous species into multiple non-contiguous variants.
The Unified Emulator Format models software on "cassette" as a contiguous sequence of segments, which may be carrier tones, the modulated asynchronous signals of ordinary data blocks, "security cycles" (modulated synchronous signals, said to be an "identification feature") or "gaps" where no recognised signal is present.
The park includes a non-contiguous extension in the Fall Creek area north of Felton.
Surrounding areas, including the non-contiguous Fall Creek unit, were logged extensively in the mid-to-late 1800s for lumber and as fuel for the many lime kilns that used to operate in the area, such as the ones preserved at nearby Cowell Lime Works.
The western slopes are the wettest place in the 48 contiguous states.
Sites of interest.
Ypsilanti has the second largest contiguous historic district in the state of Michigan, behind only the much larger city of Grand Rapids.
An eclipse of comparable length (up to 3 minutes 8 seconds) occurred over the contiguous United States on March 7, 1970 along the southeast US coast, from Florida to Virginia.
It has been hypothesized that option contracts could help allow free market roads to be constructed without resorting to eminent domain, as the road company could make option contracts with many landowners, and eventually consummate the purchase of parcels comprising the contiguous route needed to build the road.
The Homerus swallowtail was relatively common in the 1930s and its range used to be contiguous, but it has now retracted to a main population in the Blue and John Crow Mountains in eastern Jamaica, and a tiny population, estimated at less than 50 adults, in Cockpit Country in the west of the island.
For example, the southeast corner, while part of the Center aka First Fire Taxation District, is not contiguous to the central business district.
Demographics.
The two streets of homes are contiguous and "make an intact neighborhood that has remained unchanged for more than 70 years...
Garston is a village in Hertfordshire, England, more or less contiguous with Watford and now, despite retaining a local identity, is effectively a suburb.
In the north there is a contiguous forest area of 80 km², serving as recreation area for the population of the Bavarian capital. The forest consists of three separate unincorporated areas, "Anzinger Forst", "Ebersberger Forst", and "Eglhartinger Forst".
Though most of the redwoods are second growth, the adjacent Humboldt Redwoods State Park has nearly of old growth and includes Rockefeller Forest, the largest contiguous stand of old growth redwoods in the world.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Wallis and Futuna:
The Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands ( or "Territoire des îles Wallis-et-Futuna", Fakauvea and Fakafutuna: "Uvea mo Futuna") is a French island territory in Polynesia (but not part of, or even contiguous with, French Polynesia) in the South Pacific Ocean between Fiji and Samoa.
Much damage to Palestinian olive groves contiguous to the settlement has taken place in 2012, but the culprits are unknown.
It is located in the "Shaked bloc", meant to ensure contiguous Israeli presence between the strategic Highway 65 and Palestinian population centres.
It is home to over 50 million people, and Metropolitan Statistical Areas are contiguous from Washington to Boston.
Sector numbers form a contiguous sequence starting at the first session, and continue over added sessions and their gaps.
Christian terrorism has appeared in various contiguous states in North-East India.
In 1816, Melish published an important map, "Map of the United States with the contiguous British and Spanish Possessions", which depicted the United States from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, thus implicitly staking a larger claim for the US than existed at that time.
In the south, towards the Slovenian border, it is contiguous with the Poßruck mountain range.
Their choices are limited by requirements of LB 1024 that each new district consist of contiguous high school attendance areas and include either two or three of the seven existing high schools.
The village is contiguous with the smaller Shalmsford Street to the west, and was until recently the location of St Augustine's Mental Hospital, formerly known as the East Kent Lunatic Asylum.
In 2008, the NOAA announced that it expected to have the 114 contiguous US sites online that summer.
"The East End" is sometimes shortened as "The End", but this latter term is also applied only to Montauk, New York, the most easterly hamlet of the contiguous land mass.
After blocks of memory have been allocated and freed, the free memory may become fragmented (discontinuous) so that the largest contiguous block of free memory may be much smaller than the total amount.
With virtual memory, a contiguous range of virtual addresses can be mapped to several non-contiguous blocks of physical memory.
The US Army levelled Longbird Island, and smaller islands at the north of Castle Harbour, infilling waterways and part of the harbour to make a land-mass contiguous with St.
It is contiguous with the southeast of Altrincham, about southwest of the city of Manchester.
They are not contiguous as Dushanzi District is located south of the Lanxin Railway and forms an exclave, separated from the rest of Karamay City by Kuytun City.
It is an important link between several contiguous protected areas forming the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, the largest protected forest area in India.
Visibility in the Page/ Glen Canyon area averages 3.5 deciviews above natural background conditions, within less than one deciview of the best visibility listed in the contiguous U.S.
The palace is contiguous with Warsaw's Royal Castle, and down a slope from the Castle Square and Old Town.
It was a regional airline for Pan American World Airways, connecting the international airline to points within the contiguous 48 states.
If contiguous urban areas are considered, Sydney's population was 3,641,421 persons.
Now there is contiguous development along the full length of the coastline.
The River Tyrranulet is found in the Amazon Basin along four major river wildlife corridors; also two rivers in Venezuela, including the lower Orinoco. The river corridors are mostly contiguous stretches, about 100 to 150 km in width.
The contiguous range has three extensions; a southerly extension from southern Peru into central Bolivia; it is about 2000 km long and 400 km wide, and in Bolivia covers the upper reaches of tributary rivers to the northeast flowing Madeira River.
Although the Farm Hills and Boothroyd Drive are contiguous, the Meanwood Road divides the older and new estates and represents a political and postal boundary.
The contiguity matrix is an array that has a value of one in the position (i, j) whenever the spatial unit j is contiguous to the unit i. For convenience that matrix is standardized in such a way that the rows sum to one by dividing each value by the row sum of the original matrix.