contiguous

kənˈtɪɡ.ju.əs

Definition

Definition of contiguous - Reverso English Dictionary

Adjective

physical contactphysically touching or sharing a boundary

The contiguous rooms share a common wall.

adjacent

adjoining

neighboring

sequencenext to each other in sequence or time

The events were contiguous in the timeline.

adjacent

adjoining

neighboring

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Origin of contiguous

Latin, contiguus (touching) + -ous (full of)

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fragment

technology

break up a file into non-contiguous areas

scatter read

technology

read data from non-contiguous locations into a buffer

scatter read

technology

data retrieval from non-contiguous memory locations

extent

technology

contiguous storage area in computing

contg.

abbr.

abr: contiguous

touching or next to each other without gaps

n-gram

computational linguistics

contiguous sequence of n items from text or speech used in analysis

OCONUS

abbr.

abr: outside the contiguous United States

located outside the 48 connected US states

pallium

medical

cerebral cortex and contiguous white matter

Examples of contiguous in a sentence

The contiguous properties are separated by a simple fence.
The contiguous chapters made the book easy to follow.
Their birthdays are contiguous, just a day apart.

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French:adjacent, ...
German:angrenzend, aufeinanderfolgend, ...
Italian:contiguo, adiacente, ...
Spanish:contiguo, ...
Portuguese:contíguo, ...
Chinese:相邻的, 连续的, ...
Japanese:隣接する, 隣接した, ...
Arabic:مُتَلاصِق, مُتَتَالٍ, ...
Hebrew:צָמוּד, עוֹקֵב, ...
Russian:смежный, последовательный, ...
Ukrainian:суміжний, послідовний, ...
Hindi:सटा हुआ, लगातार, ...
Bengali:সংলগ্ন, ক্রমাগত, ...
Catalan:contigu, contigua, ...
Czech:sousedící, po sobě jdoucí, ...
Danish:tilstødende, kontinuerlige, ...
Dutch:aangrenzend, aaneensluitend, ...
Greek:όμορος, συνεχής, ...
Hungarian:szomszédos, egymást követő, ...
Khmer:ជាប់គ្នា, បន្តបន្ទាប់គ្នា, ...
Korean:인접한, 연속적인, ...
Persian:مجاور, متوالی, ...
Polish:przyległy, ...
Portuguese (BR):contíguo, ...
Romanian:adiacent, consecutiv, ...
Swedish:angränsande, kontinuerliga, ...
Thai:ติดกัน, ต่อเนื่อง, ...
Turkish:bitişik, ardışık, ...
Vietnamese:liền kề, liên tiếp, ...

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Adjective

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