contiguously
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6.4
- adverb
- /kənˈtɪɡ.ju.əs.li/
:
contiguamente
- Thus, the female body's touching of itself is contiguously tied to its touching of the floor, the floor's meeting with the wall, the flower's lying against its surface, and its stretching to the limits of the photograph and the "blind field" beyond.
Examples
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Whoa, we're contiguously short this evening.
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We must commence our conference contiguously.
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Yeah, and because I've made the whole thing contiguously at the beginning, I know these parts fit together just perfectly.
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The number jump task comprised five 9 in. poly-spots numbered 1 through 5 and placed contiguously in a line from the starting line.
Academic text (2005) -
Supporting the parallelism of the narrations is the fact that they frequently appear contiguously.
Academic text (1991) -
Improving alignment would improve the number of cache misses by no more than 2x, but storing data contiguously could improve performance by many times.
Blog text (18) -
Haplography, for instance, refers to the case in which the copyist, encountering the same phrase, word, or letter twice contiguously in the original, writes it only once.
Academic text (2001) -
Viewed contiguously, these two-dimensional images gave the impression of an animated conversation or a litany of commands, emphasized by the white fabric from which the hands were made to stand out dramatically against the cloth backdrops.
Academic text (2012) -
It was more important to maintain the 100 steel gangion integrity of the longline for comparison with archival data; thus, the monofilament gear was set separately but contiguously.
Academic text (1993) -
The two houses are built contiguously, sharing a common wall.
Synonyms
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2.2
Next to each other in the same place
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4.1
Happening one after another without a break
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Next to someone or something, side by side
In a place next to something
In the same place or at the same time
Antonyms
How Close
Surface Forms
Morphology
contiguously = contiguous (transparent) = contiguous + ly
Formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'contiguous', so the meaning is directly derived from the base adjective.
Etymology
The word contiguously comes from an old Latin word made of con- ('together') and a part that means 'touch', the same basic idea you see in contact. So contiguously means 'touching' or 'next to each other', and it is used when things are placed side by side or have no gaps.