contiguous vs continuous
Definitions
adjective
- connecting without a break; within a common boundary
- having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching
- very close or connected in space or time
Examples
The cause of arteritis is unknown in many instances, but parasitic invasion and contiguous involvement of vessels in some inflammatory injuries are etiological factors.
Such is a part of tire strange medley that is before and around me; and amidst them and the blue streams of smoke that are rising from the tops of these hundred "coal-pits," can be seen in distance, the green and boundless, treeless, bushless prairie; and on it, and contiguous to the piquet which encloses the village, a hundred scaffolds, on which their "dead live", as they term it.
We took our station at the top of a rich Persian's house, opposite a spacious esplanade and contiguous to a large pagoda; in the centre of the esplanade was fixed a capstern, with a pole about sixty feet long, which was fixed so as to be occasionally raised or lowered.
Definitions
adjective
- of a function or curve; extending without break or irregularity
- continuing in time or space without interruption
Examples
The highly textured surface of these poems does not, however, obscure the continuous emotional undercurrent.
The hanging-wall zone contained 33% of the copper and was the most erratic and discontinuous zone.
There are three degrees of intimacy between words, of which the first and loosest is expressed by their mere juxtaposition as separate words, the second by their being hyphened, and the third or closest by their being written continuously as one word.
