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Contiguity is the noun for being next to something — touching, or right beside, with no gap in between. Two rooms have contiguity if they share a wall. In geography, contiguity is about land that joins. Though actually, this word lives mostly in serious books and lectures. Psychology uses contiguity when two things happen close in time or space and the mind links them. Law and geography use it for borders. Ordinary people almost never say “contiguity.” They say “they’re next to each other” or “they share a border.” Keep this word for reading hard texts; you do not need it to sound natural in conversation.
鄰接、毗連（很書面；日常會說「緊挨著、接壤」）
組成From French contiguïté, from Late Latin contiguitās, from Latin contiguus (“bordering upon”), from contingō (“to touch or border upon”). The English ending is -ity: the state of being.
同家族的字
- contiguousthe adjective: next to and touching
- contactsame Latin “touch” root (contingō / contingere)
- contagionsame Latin “touch” family; now about illness spreading
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
contiguitynoun/ˌkɒn.tɪˈɡjuː.ɪ.ti/
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A state in which two or more physical objects are physically touching one another or in which sections of a plane border on one another.
- In the mechanical conception of ‘cause’ it is…demanded that there should be spatial and temporal contiguity between the movements involved.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。