contiguous

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /kənˈtɪɡ.ju.əs/    美 /kənˈtɪɡ.ju.əs/|/kənˈtɪɡ.jʉ.əs/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Connected; touching; abutting. figuratively,not-comparable,sometimes
    — It was in this haphazard way that Mr Carrados was fated to be drawn into the curious Shakespeare case—a gossipy letter from an American friend coupled with the Stratford-on-Avon outrage, and the contiguous circumstance that his secretary's sister happened to be in the council of the 'militants'.
  2. Adjacent; neighboring. not-comparable
    — 1730–1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head To shame the meanness of his humble shed;
  3. Connecting without a break. not-comparable
    — the forty-eight contiguous states

词汇关系

衍生词
contiguosity contiguous 48 contiguously contiguousness contiguous United States discontiguous incontiguous multicontiguous non-contiguous noncontiguous overcontiguous pseudocontiguous semicontiguous subcontiguous uncontiguous
相关词
contiguity coterminous

词源

From Latin contiguus (“touching”) + -ous, from contingere (“to touch”); see contingent, contact, contagion.
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