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Elements of memory are contiguous if they appear to be or are, adjacent, or connected to, one another.
Physics
Contiguity is a metallurgical property used to characterize microstructure of materials. It is computed by finding the ratio of solid-solid length to the sum of solid-solid and solid-liquid length of the microstructure.
Biology
Contiguity describes a cluster of genes that are located close to one another at a chromosome locus. Contiguous gene disorders result from deletions or duplications of a chromosome segment, thus causing a contiguous gene imbalance.
Psychology
In conditioning, contiguity refers to how associated a reinforcer is with behaviour. The higher the contiguity between events the greater the strength of the behavioural relationship. Conditioning is a psychological term for what Ivan Pavlov described as the learning of conditional behavior. ... In operant conditioning, reinforcement is the behavioral operationalization of the effects of reinforcers. ...
Geography
Contiguity can refer to the parts of a nation-state being connected by land. An example: Alabama is part of the contiguous United States,while Alaska and Hawaii are not.this is not corect
Guthrie's contiguity theory specifies that "a combination of stimuli which has accompanied a movement will on its recurrence tend to be followed by that movement".
Contiguity theory suggests that forgetting is due to interference rather than the passage of time; stimuli become associated with new responses.
Contiguity theory is intended to be a general theory of learning, although most of the research supporting the theory was done with animals.
To achieve this, the contiguous neighbours of each case would be those cases (usually 2) which immediately precede and immediately follow it in the ordering.
However, contiguous cases should normally be mutually contiguous, as in cases 1, 2 and 3 in the above example.
In most applications, contiguity constraints actually speed up the clustering process because the number of cluster fusions or relocations to be evaluated is restricted.
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