coterminal

American  

[koh-tur-muhn-uhl] / koʊˈtɜr mən əl /

adjective

1. completely overlapping in scope or extent; coterminous.

2. Geometry. (of angles) having the same vertex and sides, but differing by 360° or 2𝜋 in angular measure.

3. (of a university student) working simultaneously on a bachelor's and a master's degree, to finish both at the same time.

4. (of a bachelor's degree, a master's degree, or both) being pursued by a student at the same time as another degree, with the same finishing date for both.

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Example Sentences

Hemingway seemed to effortlessly savor and store every detail of his days, while remaining agile and present enough within them to focus on writing one true thing after another, in his daily sessions at the typewriter, as if possessing two coterminal minds and the capacity to access or silence both at will.

From Los Angeles Times

He received an A.B. in psychology and a coterminal A.M. in sociology at Stanford University in 1980, and earned three Yale degrees in psychology.

From New York Times

When, therefore, the cavalry refused to give themselves up, and the Ubii, whose land was coterminal with the Sugambri and who were at variance with them, invoked his aid, he crossed the river by bridging it.

From Project Gutenberg