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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Con·tig·u·ous a.  In actual contact; touching; also, adjacent; near; neighboring; adjoining.
    The two halves of the paper did not appear fully divided . . . but seemed contiguous at one of their angles.   --Sir I. Newton.
    Sees no contiguous palace rear its head.   --Goldsmith.
 Contiguous angles. See Adjacent angles, under Angle.
 Syn: -- Adjoining; adjacent. See Adjacent.
 -- Con*tig*u*ous*ly, adv. -- Con*tig*u*ous*ness, n.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 contiguousness
      n : the attribute of being so near as to be touching [syn: adjacency,
           contiguity]