coextensive
See also: co-extensive
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coextensive (not comparable)
- Having the same spatial limits or boundaries; sharing the same area.
- The city and county of San Francisco are coextensive.
- 2019, Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers:
- And then there are the catch-all provisions: rules that allow police to stop drivers for conduct that complies with all the rules on the books, but that officers consider "imprudent" or "unreasonable" under the circumstances, or that describe the offense in language so broad as to make a vioation virtually coextensive with the officer's unreviewable personal judgment.
- Occurring over the same period of time; contemporaneous.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.30:
- His life is almost co-extensive with one of the most disastrous periods in Roman history.
- (logic) Having the same extension—the object or set of objects to which a term refers.
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