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Border :: Border (v. i.) To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; -- with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts..

Adjacency :: Adjacency () The state of being adjacent or contiguous; contiguity; as, the adjacency of lands or buildings..

Incontiguous :: Incontiguous (a.) Not contiguous; not adjoining or in contact; separate.

Adjoin :: Adjoin (v. t.) To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append.

Insulated :: Insulated (p. a.) Standing by itself; not being contiguous to other bodies; separated; unconnected; isolated; as, an insulated house or column..

Coadunate :: Coadunate (a.) United at the base, as contiguous lobes of a leaf..

Contiguous :: Contiguous (a.) In actual contact; touching; also, adjacent; near; neighboring; adjoining..

Join :: "Join (v. i.) To be contiguous, close, or in contact; to come together; to unite; to mingle; to form a union; as, the hones of the skull join; two rivers join..

Araucaria :: Araucaria (n.) A genus of tall conifers of the pine family. The species are confined mostly to South America and Australia. The wood cells differ from those of other in having the dots in their lateral surfaces in two or three rows, and the dots of contiguous rows alternating. The seeds are edible..

Shire :: Shire (n.) A division of a State, embracing several contiguous townships; a county..

Levant :: Levant (n.) The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.

Shear :: Shear (v. i.) To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact..

Intussusception :: Intussusception (n.) The abnormal reception or slipping of a part of a tube, by inversion and descent, within a contiguous part of it; specifically, the reception or slipping of the upper part of the small intestine into the lower; introsusception; invagination..

Adjoinant :: Adjoinant (a.) Contiguous.

Tone :: Tone (n.) The larger kind of interval between contiguous sounds in the diatonic scale, the smaller being called a semitone as, a whole tone too flat; raise it a tone..

Sistering :: Sistering (a.) Contiguous.

Stress :: Stress (n.) The force, or combination of forces, which produces a strain; force exerted in any direction or manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and taking specific names according to its direction, or mode of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear or tangential stress..

Immediately :: Immediately (adv.) In an immediate manner; without intervention of any other person or thing; proximately; directly; -- opposed to mediately; as, immediately contiguous..

Shear :: Shear (v. t.) An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress..

Confine :: Confine (v. i.) To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or with.

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