coterminous
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- adjective
- /koʊˈtɜːrmɪnəs/
- Formal
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cotermino
- The two countries are coterminous, sharing a common border that stretches for hundreds of miles.
- coterminous with national boundaries
- become coterminous
And we've got our own Rust Belt here in Britain, roughly coterminous with the with the Red Wall.
- And we've got our own Rust Belt here in Britain, roughly coterminous with the with the Red Wall.
Examples
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The contract's duration is coterminous with the completion of the project, ensuring full alignment in timing.
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Her interests in music and art are coterminous, often overlapping in her creative projects.
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It's not making any claims about your mind being coterminous with the rest of the physical world.
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The agencies' authority would be coterminous with the territory involved in the transport problem.
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Justice and goodness are essentially coterminous or the same thing within God.
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At its most basic level, academic freedom enacts a function coterminous with the First Amendment right of free speech.
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Before independence in Tanzania, race and class were nearly coterminous.
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Finally, some communities can be virtually coterminous with class; for example, working-class mining villages.
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The general movement downhill in academe was originally coterminous with a period of rapid expansion in the American, Canadian, and European university world.
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At the time of European colonization, the coterminous United States had an estimated 221 million acres of wetlands.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
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Having the same area or time as something else
Having the same limits or lasting the same time as something else
In exactly the same place at the same time
How Overlapping
Surface Forms
Morphology
coterminous = terminous (semi-transparent) = co + termin + ous
While 'co-' and 'terminous' suggest shared boundaries, the specific meaning of 'coterminous' is not immediately obvious to all learners.
Etymology
Coterminous comes from co- 'together' and terminus 'end' or 'boundary', and you can see the same root in the common word term. So coterminous means two things share the same end or limits in time or space.