ADJECTIVE
- being of equal extent or scope or duration
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connecting without a break; within a common boundary
the contiguous 48 states
the 48 conterminous states -
having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching
Rhode Island has two bordering states; Massachusetts and Connecticut
neighboring cities
Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho
the side of Germany conterminous with France
How To Use conterminous In A Sentence
- Paper Title: Implications of recent sea level rise science for low-elevation areas in coastal cities of the conterminous U.S.. David Kroodsma: Weekly Climate Science Roundup
- Bedford's life was conterminous with the era of ‘personal parties’ and the office-hungry Bedfordites were criticized, even by contemporaries, as a faction motivated principally by self-interest.
- The method of colour therapy is based on the law of resonant colours interaction, conterminous to frequency characteristics of body.
- the side of Germany conterminous with France
- Capricornia, to express the country under the tropics, from the parallel of 25° South, where nature has set up her own land-marks, not to be disputed: Australindia, the country on the shores of the most southern part of the Indian archipelago; which two regions may be made conterminous according to natural limits, when such limits can be accurately ascertained. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
- Recent photographic documentation of poor siting conditions at stations in the U.S. Historical Climatology Network USHCN has led to questions regarding the reliability of surface temperature trends over the conterminous U.S. The hedgehog and the hyena
- Streamflow in the conterminous United States increased sharply around 1970 according to a recent study by the U.S. Geological Survey.
- At level III, the continental United States contains 104 ecoregions and the conterminous United States has 84 ecoregions (United States Environmental Protection Agency [USEPA], 2003). Ecoregions of Oregon (EPA)
- Of course, you'll define the latter in a way that is conterminous with the philosophy you oppose, but pretend that you do no such thing.
- The first compilation of ecoregions in the conterminous United States by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) was performed at a relatively cursory scale (1: 3,168,000), and was published at a smaller scale (1: 7,500,000) (Omernik, 1987). Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)