The state of being contiguous; intimate association; nearness; proximity.
Adjacency. For redistricting purposes, a district is considered to be contiguous if all parts of the district touch one another at more than a point, so that the entire district is within a continuous boundary. Legal standards governing redistricting for various governmental bodies often require all of the territory in each district to be contiguous.
Nearness. The adjective is 'contiguous', which means very near; touching.
the attribute of being so near as to be touching
A phenomenon that, in terms of proximity of forms or referents, is responsible for creating ellipsis, or metonymy.
A part of a district being connected at some point with the rest of the district.
Traditional redistricting principle referring to whether or not all parts of a district are connected to each other.
All parts of a district being connected at some point with the rest of the district.
A requirement mandating that a district be in one piece. A district is considered contiguous if all parts of the district touch one other at more than one point.
Contiguity comes from one of Aristotle's Laws of Association. The Law of Contiguity refers to the fact that things that occur in proximity to each other in time or space are readily associated.