coterminous
Americanadjective
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having the same border or covering the same area.
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being the same in extent; coextensive in range or scope.
adjective
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having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous
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coextensive or coincident in range, time, scope, etc
Other Word Forms
- coterminously adverb
Etymology
Origin of coterminous
First recorded in 1790–1800; re-formation of conterminous ( def. ); co-
Example Sentences
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While satellite imagery has been around for decades, without recent advances in cloud computing, Lark says it was impossible to classify the nearly 2 billion acres of land in the coterminous U.S.
From Science Daily
Wilson mistakenly assumed that “nations” and “peoples” are synonyms, or that they designate coterminous entities.
From Washington Post
An aerial view, the flattened sidewalk is coterminous with the flat paper on which Lawrence painted, filling it edge to edge.
From Los Angeles Times
This culture isn’t coterminous with what has recently emerged as a slippery, insulated, narrative-controlling criminal class hiding in plain sight.
From The New Yorker
Past, present and future are coterminous here, a sense underscored by Jon Clark’s lighting and Luke Halls’s video projections, which summon an eternal Manhattan that is equal parts steel and shadow.
From New York Times
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