contiguous

Touching something else along an edge or surface.

• The two plots are contiguous.
• These contiguous tiles share an edge.
• The forest is contiguous with the park.

How to use it: contiguous with something (Their land is contiguous with ours.)

Similar words: adjoining, abutting

Opposites: separate

Common phrases: contiguous plots, contiguous surfaces, contiguous with something

Forming one connected area or sequence without any gaps.

• The route crosses several contiguous states.
• The file needs contiguous blocks of memory.
• They protected one contiguous stretch of forest.

Similar words: continuous, unbroken

Opposites: discontinuous

Common phrases: contiguous states, contiguous blocks, contiguous stretch

Located next to something else.

• They rented two contiguous rooms.
• The museum occupies contiguous buildings.
• Our offices are contiguous to the main library.

How to use it: contiguous to something (The garden is contiguous to the school grounds.)

Similar words: adjacent, neighboring

Common phrases: contiguous rooms, contiguous areas, contiguous to something