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Coterminous

//kəˈtɝ.mɪ.nəs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Meeting end to end or at the ends. not-comparable
  2. 2
    Having matching boundaries; or, adjoining and sharing a boundary. not-comparable

    "New York's borough of Brooklyn and Kings County are coterminous."

  3. 3
    Having the same scope, range of meaning, or extent in time. broadly, not-comparable

    "But it is purely fantastic unless we bear in mind that the governing class has been continually compelled to enlarge itself, and that its tendency is reluctantly to go on doing so until in the end it will be coterminous with the "governed class.""

  4. 4
    Said of linked or related property leases that expire together. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    being of equal extent or scope or duration wordnet

Etymology

From Latin conterminus, from con- (“with”) + terminus (“border, end”), equivalent to co- + terminous. The spelling with co- instead of con- is probably influenced by the related prefix co-.

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