coterminous
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adjective \(ˌ)kō-ˈtər-mə-nəs\Definition of COTERMINOUS
1
: having the same or coincident boundaries <a voting district coterminous with the city>
2
: coextensive in scope or duration <an experience of life coterminous with the years of his father — Elizabeth Hardwick>
— co·ter·mi·nous·ly adverb
Examples of COTERMINOUS
- <the Alfred Lunt–Lynn Fontanne partnership was more or less coterminous with Broadway's golden age>
- <Massachusetts' Nantucket County isn't quite coterminous with the island of the same name, as the county includes two small nearby islets.>
Origin of COTERMINOUS
alteration of conterminous
First Known Use: 1799
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