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contiguous 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Adjective
/kənˈtigyo͞oəs/,
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Sharing a common border; touching,
  1. Sharing a common border; touching
    • - the 48 contiguous states
  2. Next or together in sequence
    • - five hundred contiguous dictionary entries
  1. very close or connected in space or time; "contiguous events"; "immediate contact"; "the immediate vicinity"; "the immediate past"
  2. conterminous: connecting without a break; within a common boundary; "the 48 conterminous states"; "the contiguous 48 states"
  3. (contiguousness) adjacency: the attribute of being so near as to be touching
  4. A contiguity is a continuous mass, or a series of things in contact or proximity. In a different meaning, contiguity is the state of being contiguous. ...
  5. (Contiguity (probability theory)) In probability theory, two sequences of probability measures are said to be contiguous if asymptotically they share the same support. Thus the notion of contiguity extends the concept of absolute continuity to the sequences of measures.
  6. connected; touching; abutting; adjacent; neighbouring/neighboring; connecting without a break
  7. (contiguity) A state in which two or more physical objects are physically touching one another or in which sections of a plane border on one another
  8. (Contiguity) Adjacency. For redistricting purposes, a district is considered to be contiguous if all parts of the district touch one another at more than a point, so that the entire district is within a continuous boundary. ...
  9. (contiguity) The temporal pairing of CS and UCS.
  10. (Contiguity) The almost simultaneous occurrence of stimulus and response in psychomotor skill learning.
  11. (Contiguity) all areas in the district are physically connected to each other.
  12. (contiguity) A series of adjacent elements; connected by time, placement or relationship. One of Aristotle's laws of association (similarity, contiguity and opposites). One of Hume's 3 laws of association (contiguity, resemblance and causality).
  13. (contiguity) The topological identification of adjacent polygons by recording the left and right polygons of each arc. See also polygon-arc topology.
  14. (contiguity) in behaviourism, the principle that a reinforcer must occur immediately after a response in order for learning to occur.
  15. Actually touching; having a common boundary.
  16. Touching at some point or along a boundary.
  17. In actual close contact; touching, adjacent, near.
  18. Placed adjacently; one after another.
  19. Touching or very close together.
  20. Near or close to, whether actually touching or not. Generally refers to actual touching or bordering on.
  21. objects, such as parcels of land, which exist in continuous physical proximity or adjacency to one another.
  22. Storage that is physically adjacent on a disk volume.
  23. neighbouring parts being in contact but not fusing
  24. Touching - usually applied to eyes (see also Holoptic).
  25. adjacent spatial units touching to form an unbroken chain or surface