How to pronounce“contiguous”in English
Some criteria are required by law for instance we have to have about the same number people in every district, and all districts have to be contiguous.
Contiguous means they can’t be broken up into a bunch of pieces, with some exceptions.
The court wants districts to preserve political subdivisions like cities, counties, municipal boundaries...
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Definitions of “contiguous”
Connected; touching; abutting.
“It was in this haphazard way that Mr Carrados was fated to be drawn into the curious Shakespeare case—a gossipy letter from an American friend coupled with the Stratford-on-Avon outrage, and the contiguous circumstance that his secretary's sister happened to be in the council of the 'militants'.”
Adjacent; neighboring.
“1730–1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head To shame the meanness of his humble shed;”
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