CONTIGUITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does contiguity mean? 

• CONTIGUITY (noun)
  The noun CONTIGUITY has 1 sense:

1. the attribute of being so near as to be touching

  Familiarity information: CONTIGUITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONTIGUITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The attribute of being so near as to be touching

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

adjacency; contiguity; contiguousness

Hypernyms ("contiguity" is a kind of...):

closeness; nearness (the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance)

Derivation:

contiguous (very close or connected in space or time)

contiguous (having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching)

contiguous (connecting without a break; within a common boundary)

 Context examples 

A classical conditioning procedures that present different stimuli in temporal proximity (contiguity), but where resulting responses have no reinforcing or aversive consequences.

(Pavlovian Conditioning, NCI Thesaurus)