Literary notes about Contiguous (AI summary)
In literature, the term "contiguous" is often used to describe the immediate proximity or direct connection between objects, places, or concepts. It conveys a sense of closeness without necessarily implying influence, causality, or complete identity. For instance, authors use it to depict estates or regions sharing adjacent borders, as when estates exert influence on government or when geographical areas border one another ([1], [2], [3], [4]). In works of philosophy and science, "contiguous" assists in clarifying that while events, processes, or elements may immediately follow one another or be physically touching, their relationship is one of proximity rather than cause and effect ([5], [6], [7], [8]). Similarly, in narrative descriptions, the term can evoke detailed imagery of rooms, communities, or natural features lying side by side, thereby enriching the reader’s visualization of a spatial or temporal continuum ([9], [10]).
- Besides, the estates, which were contiguous, had long exercised a rival influence in the affairs of a busy government.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe - Assyria is contiguous to Persia and Susiana.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) by Strabo - It had been a Cistercian Convent in old days, when the Smithfield, which is contiguous to it, was a tournament ground.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray - Contiguous to Susiana is Elymaïs, a great part of which is rugged, and inhabited by robbers.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) by Strabo - An object may be contiguous and prior to another, without being considered as its cause.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume - A blue and a red point may surely lie contiguous without any penetration or annihilation.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume - Cause and effect, therefore, will have to be temporally contiguous processes.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell - I immediately perceive, that they are contiguous in time and place, and that the object we call cause precedes the other we call effect.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume - Detached from this part of the house was a little square room on the ground floor, contiguous to the kitchen, which was assigned to Las Cases.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various - And a town or pueblo in the Philippines is more than an area covered by more or less contiguous buildings and grounds.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. Blount
