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Contiguity ˌkɒntɪ'ɡjuːəti N.接近 House Garage Convenience Bad Weather

Front contiguity
Pron [ˌkɒntɪ'ɡjuːəti]
Back 【contiguity】
n.接近
The contiguity of the house and the garage was a convenience in bad weather.
房屋与车房的接近在坏天气时是一项便利。
Vocab
contiguitythe attribute of being so near as to be touching

Use the noun contiguity when you're talking about the state of things being right up next to each other, like the contiguity of two countries that share a border.

You're most likely to come across the word contiguity in a discussion of geography. For example, you could talk about the contiguity of the United States and its northern neighbor, Canada, or the contiguity of New Hampshire and Vermont. Contiguity shares a root with the more common contiguous, the Latin contingere, which means "to touch upon."

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