coterminous

Also co·ter·mi·nal

[koh-tur-muh-nuhs]

adjective

1. having the same border or covering the same area.

2. being the same in extent; coextensive in range or scope.

coterminous

/ kəʊˈtɜːmɪnəs /

adjective

1. having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous

2. coextensive or coincident in range, time, scope, etc

Other Word Forms

• coterminously adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of coterminous¹

First recorded in 1790–1800; re-formation of conterminous ( def. ); co-

Example Sentences

“There’s a Calvinist streak in the American spirit and nature that is so deeply mistrustful of pleasure. And right now, it’s coterminous with fascism, where there shouldn’t be any pleasure for its own sake.”

From Los Angeles Times

It's also plausible that at some point you've inhaled Helms' presence in the somewhat raunchier "Hangover" movies, a smash-hit trilogy exactly coterminous with the latter years of "The Office."

From Salon

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

Related Words

• adjacent 
• contiguous 
• neighboring