contiguousformal

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

at the side of
besideCome sit beside me.
next toYour glasses are on the table next to my tea.
alongCars were parked along the road.
alongsideBikes shared the road alongside cars and buses.
againstWe pushed the bed against the wall.
The disquieting situation between these two neighboring countries looks set to continue.
If neighboring countries are having a war, you can't just dive in.
The deposed leaders are currently in exile in the neighboring country.
She married a man from the neighboring village.
The conflict threatens to spill over into neighboring regions.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Next to and beside
abreast
adjacency
adjacent
adjacently
adjoining
against
at someone's elbowidiom
beside
bordering
contiguity
contiguous
elbow
neighbour
next
next door
next door but oneidiom
next door to someone/something
non-contiguous
shoulder
side

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Closeness in distance and time

neighboring | American Dictionary

neighboring
adjective[ not gradable ]
(CdnBrneighbouring)us/ˈneɪ·bər·ɪŋ/
(of places) next or near to each other:
Kentucky and Tennessee are neighboring states.

Examples of neighboring

neighboring
Distances between neighboring cells were measured separately in the central and peripheral retina in both juvenile and adult animals.
At the inter-state level, the environmental degradation of one country could easily affect the environments of neighboring states.
These sites did not have the sherd densities of similar sites in the neighboring valleys.
The first, "fast" homogenization stage lasts up to the moment of the collision of plasmas flowing from neighboring filaments.
The half-spaces, of - which it is the intersection, are determined by codimension-one subspaces orthogonal to the edges connecting vi to neighboring vertices.
In both conditions, 1.0 indicates no masking by achromatic components at neighboring orientations.
Retroviral infection of whole embryos is more efficient than of cultured neural tubes presumably because the viral particles can easily infect neighboring cells.
This is contrary to our first assumption that these parameters are functions of the neighboring joint angles and masses.
This observation might also be explained by a difference in the developmental stage of neighboring astrocytes.
Second, and more prominent, we observed that neighboring dendrites were pulled apar t from each other.
Wandering inversions of venous flow were observed in bridging veins between neighboring systems of drainage during low-flow perfusion.
While neighboring lands split off and the colonization of the people was never achieved, the empire triumphed in the sublime discipline of poetic language.
Policy makers wish to make policy (and in the process influence other policies), but inevitably end up adjusting to neighboring policies.
They became the purview of diplomatic officials who were directly engaged in managing relations with neighboring countries.
Interaction between neighboring beams in heavy ion fusion reactor chamber.
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