contiguity

Those principles include compactness, contiguity and the preservation of political subdivisions, including cities and counties, and “communities of interest” that have geography, culture or an economic sector in common.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

"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

Then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government said the latter move would help "provide Palestinian territorial contiguity" in the West Bank and make it easier for Palestinians to live a normal life.

From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2023

The abundance, cheapness, contiguity, and excellent quality of the bituminous coal, underlying portions of all three of these counties, obviate all necessity of wood for fuel.

From The History of Peru by Henry S. Beebe

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