coterminous
Speech parts
1. coterminous - Adjective
2. coterminous - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Bordering; conterminous; -- followed by with.
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Examples
And critically, just before the Depression, two massive, and coterminous, projects were completed, lending the University much of its modern appearance.
Lexington city limits became coterminous with Fayette County in 1974.
Pharos in culture The lighthouse remains a civic symbol of the city of Alexandria and of the Alexandria Governorate with which the city is more or less coterminous.
Historian Anthony Pagden argues, "just as the civitas; had now become coterminous with Christianity, so to be human—to be, that is, one who was 'civil', and who was able to interpret correctly the law of nature—one had now also to be Christian."
The life of Parliament is five years coterminous with that of the incumbency of the president, and thus runs from the date that the president was sworn into office — August 22, 2013, and not July, 2013 (the day of the last general elections).
In some cases, the village may be coterminous with the town or township.