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contiguity|kɒntɪˈgjuːɪtɪ|
[ad. L. contiguitās, or F. contiguité (17th c. in Littré), f. L. contigu-us, F. contigu: see prec. and -ity.]
1. The condition of touching or being in contact.
1641Wilkins Math. Magick ii. iv. (1648) 175 There being not the least contiguity or dependence upon any body. 1671J. Webster Metallogr. iv. 66 The heat is increased by the contiguity of many grains lying one upon another. 1748Hartley Observ. Man ii. ii. 110 It might have been contiguous to other Parts of our great Continent..though that Contiguity be since broken off. 1842W. Grove Corr. Phys. Forces (ed. 6) 28 Communicating expansion to all bodies in contiguity with it.
b. fig. Of non-physical contact.
a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. v. 160 A mere kind of apposition or contiguity of our natures with the divine. 1654Codrington Hist. Ivstine 509 A woman, who by the contiguitie of blood had neer relation to the King. 1840Carlyle Heroes (1858) 305 It related, with a wondrous new contiguity and perpetual closeness, the Past and Distant with the Present in time and place.
c. Psychol. Proximity of impressions or ideas in place or time, as a principle of association.
Law of Contiguity: the principle that ‘Actions, Sensations, and States of Feeling, occurring together, or in close succession, tend to grow together, or cohere, in such a way that when any of them is afterwards presented to the mind, the others are apt to be brought up in idea’ Bain Mental & Moral Sc. (1868) 85.
1739Hume Treatise i. §4 The qualities from which this association arises, and by which the mind is after this manner convey'd from one idea to another, are three, viz.: Resemblance, Contiguity in time or place, and Cause and Effect. 1785Reid Intell. Powers iv. iv, According to [Hume's] philosophy..contiguity must include causation. 1829Jas. Mill Anal. Hum. Mind I. 79 Contiguity of two sensations in time means the successive order. 1838Sir W. Hamilton in Reid's Wks. 294/2 note, Aristotle's reduction is to the four following heads:—Proximity in time—Contiguity in place—Resemblance—Contrast. 1868Bain Ment. & Mor. Sc. 85 The principle of Contiguity has been described under various names, as Hamilton's law of ‘Redintegration’; the ‘Association of Ideas’, including Order in Time, Order in Place, Cause and Effect.
†2. concr. A thing in contact; a contiguous thing, point, surface, etc. Obs.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. i. 53 It [crystall] hath not its determination from circumscription or as conforming unto contiguities. 1664Power Exp. Philos. ii. 93 Particles of Air that lurk 'twixt the Contiguities of the Glass and Quicksilver. Ibid. ii. 132 Creeping up 'twixt the Contiguity of the Glass and Quicksilver.
3. quasi-concr. A continuous mass, whereof all the parts are in uninterrupted contact.
1784Cowper Task ii. 2 Some boundless contiguity of shade. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. II. 47 The general picture was a contiguity of red, earthen roofs. a1864― Amer. Note-bks. (1879) II. 46 Among the contiguity of trees.
4. loosely. Close proximity, without actual contact.
[1656Blount Glossogr., Contiguity, nearness, the close being of two together.] 1734tr. Rollin's Anc. Hist. (1827) I. ii. 334 Called the Faro or strait of Messina from its contiguity to that city. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 690 Its contiguity to the West India islands gives the merchants superior advantages. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xiv, There were two which stood in such close contiguity, that they seemed to have been portions of the same rock, which..now exhibited a chasm of about four feet. 1874Lyell Elem. Geol. xvi. 248 The contiguity of land may be inferred..from these vegetable productions. |