contiguity

Israel has long offered to build a bypass road for this purpose, with no harm done to the contiguity of a potential future state.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

What is vital about the peasant kitchen is its sense of contiguity.

From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2025

"They also don't just associate that word with an object based on temporal contiguity without really understanding the meaning of those words, but they activate a memory of an object when they hear its name."

From Science Daily ● Mar. 22, 2024

“Since the distance between town and island is slight, we do not think the failure of the legislative plan to achieve literal contiguity a serious demerit,” the judges wrote in 1992.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 12, 2023

Coming from London to Paris, one is struck with the contrast—London is so vast and interminable, and dark,—a "boundless contiguity of shade,"—while Paris is all brightness and sunshine.

From From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field

It lacks physical constraints, but also circumstantial contiguities; all points of passage through it have to be, in some sense, primed.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 1, 2016

“Let Pennsylvania see those blossoming fields for herself,” said he, “those boundless contiguities of shade.”

From Red Men and White by Frederic Remington

So that the contiguity of Turks and Armenians has been even more unfortunate than are most contiguities.

From Mystery at Geneva An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings by Dame Rose Macaulay

At every moment the study of science reveals resemblances of facts and contiguities of facts which must be neglected for the sake of others.

From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet