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Conterminous

adjective
1.
Connecting without a break; within a common boundary.  Synonym: contiguous.  "The contiguous 48 states"
2.
Having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching.  Synonyms: adjacent, contiguous, neighboring.  "The side of Germany conterminous with France" , "Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho" , "Neighboring cities"
3.
Being of equal extent or scope or duration.  Synonyms: coextensive, coterminous.






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"Conterminous" Quotes from Famous Books



... say where. In search for it he spent many days in those old book-closets where he had lighted on the Latin ode of Conrad Celtes. Was German literature always to remain no more than a kind of penal apparatus for the teasing of the brain? Oh! for a literature set free, conterminous with the interests of ...
— Imaginary Portraits • Walter Horatio Pater

... somewhat more thoroughly our delineation of Norway. It should be known that on the east it is conterminous with Sweden and Gothland, and is bounded on both sides by the waters of the neighbouring ocean. Also on the north it faces a region whose position and name are unknown, and which lacks all civilisation, but teems with peoples of monstrous strangeness; and a vast interspace ...
— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")

... risings occurred which were suppressed with no great difficulty; and in 1894 the boundaries of the Colony, which had been advancing by a series of small annexations, were finally rounded off on the eastern side by the addition of the territory of the Pondos, which made it conterminous in that direction with the ...
— Impressions of South Africa • James Bryce



Words linked to "Conterminous" :   adjacent, contiguous, coterminous, neighboring, connected, commensurate



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