Word Meanings - INCONTIGUOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Not contiguous; not adjoining or in contact; separate. Boyle. -- In`con*tig"u*ous*ly, adv.
Related words: (words related to INCONTIGUOUS)
- CONTACTION
Act of touching. - BOYLE'S LAW
See LAW - CONTIGUOUS
In actual contact; touching; also, adjacent; near; neighboring; adjoining. The two halves of the paper did not appear fully divided . . . but seemed contiguous at one of their angles. Sir I. Newton. Sees no contiguous palace rear its head. - CONTACT
The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction. (more info) 1. A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting. - ADJOIN
To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append. Corrections . . . should be, as remarks, adjoined by way of note. Watts. - ADJOINANT
Contiguous. Carew. - SEPARATE
pfref. se- aside + parare to make ready, prepare. See Parade, and cf. 1. To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner. From the fine gold I separate the alloy. Dryden. Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. Gen. xiii. - ADJOINT
An adjunct; a helper. - ADJOINING
Joining to; contiguous; adjacent; as, an adjoining room. "The adjoining fane." Dryden. Upon the hills adjoining to the city. Shak. Syn. -- Adjacent; contiguous; near; neighboring; abutting; bordering. See Adjacent. - INSEPARATE
Not separate; together; united. Shak. - INCONTIGUOUS
Not contiguous; not adjoining or in contact; separate. Boyle. -- In`con*tig"u*ous*ly, adv. - INSEPARATELY
Inseparably. Cranmer.