MEANING
1. Sharing a common boundary or border.
2. Having the same boundaries, scope, or period as something else.
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Words that belong together
- coterminous territories
- coterminous districts
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The coterminous territories disagreed over the bridge connecting them.
Two coterminous districts met at the road where the patrol stopped.
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- coterminous
Usage notes
Primary category: setting. Forms: Relational or positional adjective; ordinary comparative and superlative usually not applicable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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