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Contignation
Contignation Con`tig*na"tion, n. [L. contignatio, fr. contignare to join with beams; con- + tignum beam.] 1. The act or process of framing together, or uniting, as beams in a fabric. --Burke. 2. A framework or fabric, as of beams. --Sir H. Wotton.
Contiguate
Contiguate Con*tig"u*ate, a. [LL. contiguatus.] Contiguous; touching. [Obs.] --Holland.
Contiguous
Contiguous Con*tig"u*ous, a. [L. contiguus; akin to contigere to touch on all sides. See Contingent.] 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. --Goldsmith. Contiguous angles. See Adjacent angles, under Angle. Syn: Adjoining; adjacent. See Adjacent. -- Con*tig"u*ous*ly, adv. -- Con*tig"u*ous*ness, n.
contiguous angle
Adjacent Ad*ja"cent, a. [L. adjacens, -centis, p. pr. of adjacere to lie near; ad + jac[=e]re to lie: cf. F. adjacent.] Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway. ``The adjacent forest.' --B. Jonson. Adjacent or contiguous angle. (Geom.) See Angle. Syn: Adjoining; contiguous; near. Usage: Adjacent, Adjoining, Contiguous. Things are adjacent when they lie close each other, not necessary in actual contact; as, adjacent fields, adjacent villages, etc. I find that all Europe with her adjacent isles is peopled with Christians. --Howell. Things are adjoining when they meet at some line or point of junction; as, adjoining farms, an adjoining highway. What is spoken of as contiguous should touch with some extent of one side or the whole of it; as, a row of contiguous buildings; a wood contiguous to a plain.
Contiguous angles
Contiguous Con*tig"u*ous, a. [L. contiguus; akin to contigere to touch on all sides. See Contingent.] 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. --Goldsmith. Contiguous angles. See Adjacent angles, under Angle. Syn: Adjoining; adjacent. See Adjacent. -- Con*tig"u*ous*ly, adv. -- Con*tig"u*ous*ness, n.
Contiguously
Contiguous Con*tig"u*ous, a. [L. contiguus; akin to contigere to touch on all sides. See Contingent.] 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. --Goldsmith. Contiguous angles. See Adjacent angles, under Angle. Syn: Adjoining; adjacent. See Adjacent. -- Con*tig"u*ous*ly, adv. -- Con*tig"u*ous*ness, n.
Contiguousness
Contiguous Con*tig"u*ous, a. [L. contiguus; akin to contigere to touch on all sides. See Contingent.] 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. --Goldsmith. Contiguous angles. See Adjacent angles, under Angle. Syn: Adjoining; adjacent. See Adjacent. -- Con*tig"u*ous*ly, adv. -- Con*tig"u*ous*ness, n.
Incontiguous
Incontiguous In`con*tig"u*ous, a. [L. incontiguus that can not be touched. See In- not, and Contiguous.] Not contiguous; not adjoining or in contact; separate. --Boyle. -- In`con*tig"u*ous*ly, adv.
Incontiguously
Incontiguous In`con*tig"u*ous, a. [L. incontiguus that can not be touched. See In- not, and Contiguous.] Not contiguous; not adjoining or in contact; separate. --Boyle. -- In`con*tig"u*ous*ly, adv.

Meaning of Contig from wikipedia

- A contig (from contiguous) is a set of overlapping DNA segments that together represent a consensus region of DNA. In bottom-up sequencing projects, a...
- Contig is a command line defragmentation utility for Windows developed by Microsoft as part of the Sysinternals Suite. Contig is designed to defragment...
- a set of contig or scaffold lengths. The N50 is similar to a mean or median of lengths, but has greater weight given to the longer contigs. It is used...
- reads overlapping, creating contigs, which are contiguous DNA regions of consensus sequences. If there are gaps between contigs, these can be filled by scaffolding...
- sequences known as contigs. Contigs can be linked together into scaffolds by following connections between mate pairs. The distance between contigs can be inferred...
- By this approach, physical map contigs can be "anc****d" onto a genetic map. The clones used in the physical map contigs can then be sequenced on a local...
- constitute the entire genome being synthesized. Note that c****ettes differ from contigs by definition, in that these sequences contain regions of homology to other...
- Overlapping reads form contigs; contigs and gaps of known length form scaffolds....
- tags into EST contigs. Example of resources that provide EST contigs include: TIGR gene indices, Unigene, and STACK Constructing EST contigs is not trivial...
- ****embled into contigs, which, by the nature of their ****embly, have gaps between them. The next step is to then bridge the gaps between these contigs to create...