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coterminous
[ koh-tur-muh-nuhs ]
adjective
- having the same border or covering the same area.
- being the same in extent; coextensive in range or scope.
coterminous
/ əʊˈɜːɪə /
adjective
- having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous
- coextensive or coincident in range, time, scope, etc
Other Word Forms
- ·ٱm·Դdzܲ· adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of coterminous1
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.”
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."
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.
Wilson mistakenly assumed that “nations” and “peoples” are synonyms, or that they designate coterminous entities.
An aerial view, the flattened sidewalk is coterminous with the flat paper on which Lawrence painted, filling it edge to edge.
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