| contiguity | 1. Contact without actual continuity, e.g., the contact of the bones entering into the formation of a cranial suture. Compare: continuity. 2. Occurrence of two or more objects, events, or mental impressions together in space (spatial contiguity) or time (temporal contiguity). Origin: L. Contiguus, touching, fr. Contingo, to touch (05 Mar 2000) |
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| solution of contiguity | The breaking of contiguity; a dislocation or displacement of two normally contiguous parts. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| law of contiguity | When two ideas or psychologically perceived events have once occurred in close association they are likely to so occur again, the subsequent occurrence of one tending to elicit the other; this law figures prominently in modern theories of conditioning and learning. (05 Mar 2000) |