coextensive
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
coextensive (not comparable)
- Having the same spatial limits or boundaries; sharing the same area.
- The city and county of San Francisco are coextensive.
- Occurring over the same period of time; contemporaneous.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.30:
- His life is almost co-extensive with one of the most disastrous periods in Roman history.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.30:
- (logic) Having the same extension—the object or set of objects to which a term refers.
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