contiguity

kontiguiteetti, läheisyys A state in which two or more physical objects are physically touching one another or in which sections of a plane border on one another.
1958–1960, w:Richard Stanley Peters|R.S. Peters, The Concept of Motivation, w:Routledge Routledge & Kegan Paul (second edition), chapter i: “Types of Explanation in Psychological Theories”, page 12:

In the mechanical conception of ‘cause’ it is…demanded that there should be spatial and temporal contiguity between the movements involved.