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There seem to be four possible ways: (1) the atoms could be in succession with one another, but in no way touching one another; or the atoms could be touching one another, in which case they might do so by being (2) contiguous with one another, (3) continuous with one another, or (4) interpenetrating one another.
Whitechapel as he saw it was a thriving, prosperous place, with its wide, busy, well-lit central artery, and all the wretchedness and squalor were buried in contiguous courts.
These districts suit not only black and Latino Democrats, who easily win election in such enclaves, but also conservative white Republicans, who win in all the contiguous places from which the minorities have been gerrymandered out.Yet the system also leaves plenty of discretion with the party in power.
Messrs Card and Krueger moved on to other work, but Arindrajit Dube at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Michael Reich of the University of California at Berkeley have generalised the case-study approach, comparing restaurant employment across all contiguous counties with different minimum-wage levels between 1990 and 2006.
Iran's support for Jalal Talabani, the leader of the PUK which runs the chunk of the Iraqi enclave contiguous to Iran, has helped to prevent the KDPI from launching cross-border attacks.
According to a report on July 12th by the United States Drought Monitor, nearly 30% of the land in the contiguous United States (the 48 states other than Alaska and Hawaii) is affected by drought.
Now, of 15 contiguous countries lying to the east and south-east of those new borders, at least 11 more hope to become EU members, most of them within the next ten years or so, subject to various ifs and buts.Romania and Bulgaria have already signed their accession treaties and expect to join in 2007 and 2008, though the treaties have yet to be ratified by all EU parliaments.
At the other extreme, Russia has nine contiguous time zones, more than any other country.
Given that kind of density, Mr Florida writes, "it makes sense to develop high-speed rail connections within mega-regions first, and later develop connections between contiguous ones, say for example down the east and west coasts or across the Great Lakes region".
Mr Morrison's visit to Delhi on July 22nd sparked speculation that Australia hoped to send the asylum-seekers to India instead.The government says the Sri Lankans were intercepted in a "contiguous zone" just outside Australia's territorial waters around Christmas Island.
What is it?(a) That in any map composed of contiguous spaces, no more than four colours are required to paint it without any adjacent spaces being of the same colour.
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The adjective "contiguous " primarily functions to describe entities sharing a common boundary or being adjacent . It specifies spatial relationships, as demonstrated in Ludwig's examples, such as "the contiguous United States" or "contiguous plots of land".
Expression frequency: Very common
