coterminous

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[ UK /kˈə‍ʊtəmˌɪnəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. being of equal extent or scope or duration
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How To Use coterminous In A Sentence

  • And the consciousness of happiness or pain, as has already been hinted at, is the central moral index for most liberals - it is almost coterminous with our definition of being human.
  • With us privacy and kinship are felt to be roughly coterminous.
  • Evidently the boundaries of the ‘self’ so conceived is not coterminous with an individual's own skin.
  • The map showed clearly that the distribution of oak trees is coterminous with the locations of the settled civilizations of Asia, Europe, and North America.
  • What I loved about the books that I was being read was they seemed to belong to no real world, because nothing in them physically was coterminous with anything I knew.
  • The boundaries of the committees are coterminous with the 42 police services operating in the same area.
  • They are seldom coterminous with a local authority boundary. Times, Sunday Times
  • The nobles founded many monasteries and the archbishopric of Rouen was coterminous with the duchy.
  • In some cases, the definition of parishes by ethnicity was de jure aka “nationality parishes” while in other cases the ethnic fragmentation was de facto, based on geography, as ethnicity and neighborhood boundaries were coterminous anyway.50 Whether de facto or de jure, the objective was to provide a linguistically and culturally comfortable niche in which members of the different ethnic groups could experience their religion, and reinforce their ethnicity. American Grace
  • In some cases, the definition of parishes by ethnicity was de jure aka “nationality parishes” while in other cases the ethnic fragmentation was de facto, based on geography, as ethnicity and neighborhood boundaries were coterminous anyway.50 Whether de facto or de jure, the objective was to provide a linguistically and culturally comfortable niche in which members of the different ethnic groups could experience their religion, and reinforce their ethnicity. American Grace
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