contiguousness

The Legislative Services Agency uses prioritized criteria - population equality, respect for political subdivisions, contiguousness and compactness - to draw the boundaries.

They were bound together by the contiguousness of their back yards and front porches, and by a community of interest in taxes and water-rates and the high cost of living.

To some extent, however, their contiguousness to the aristocratic class has now the effect of materializing them, as it does the class of newly enriched people.

In all these cases, the contiguousness of similar, or dissimilar growths, is not stated.