coterminous

[ koh-tur-muh-nuhs ]

adjective

1. having the same border or covering the same area.
2. being the same in extent; coextensive in range or scope.

coterminous

/ kəʊˈtɜːmɪnəs /

adjective

1. having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous
2. coextensive or coincident in range, time, scope, etc

Other Words From

• co·termi·nous·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of coterminous¹

First recorded in 1790–1800; re-formation of conterminous ( def ); co-

Example Sentences

It's also plausible that at some point you've inhaled Helms' presence in the somewhat raunchier "Hangover" movies, a smash-hit trilogy exactly coterminous with the latter years of "The Office."

From Salon

While satellite imagery has been around for decades, without recent advances in cloud computing, Lark says it was impossible to classify the nearly 2 billion acres of land in the coterminous U.S.

From Science Daily

Wilson mistakenly assumed that “nations” and “peoples” are synonyms, or that they designate coterminous entities.

From Washington Post

An aerial view, the flattened sidewalk is coterminous with the flat paper on which Lawrence painted, filling it edge to edge.

From Los Angeles Times

This culture isn’t coterminous with what has recently emerged as a slippery, insulated, narrative-controlling criminal class hiding in plain sight.

From The New Yorker

Related Words

• adjacent
• contiguous
• neighboring