Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having a boundary in common; contiguous: The northern border of the United States is conterminous with the southern border of Canada.
- adj. Contained in the same boundaries; coextensive: the conterminous 48 states.
- adj. Having the same scope, range of meaning, or extent in time.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having the same limit; bordering; touching at the boundary; contiguous.
- . Having the same borders or limits, and hence of the same extent or size; of equal extension.
- . In zoöl., having the same limitation or definition: said of classificatory groups. Thus, a genus which is the only one of a family is conterminous with it; the modern group Ichthyopsida is conterminous with the two classes Pisces and Amphibia. Also
conterminate . - Also coterminous.
Wiktionary
- adj. Meeting end-to-end or at the ends.
- adj. geography Adjoining; sharing a boundary.
- adj. Having the same scope, range of meaning, or extent in time.
- adj. law Said of linked or related property leases that expire together.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having the same bounds, or limits; bordering upon; contiguous.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching.
- adj. being of equal extent or scope or duration
- adj. connecting without a break; within a common boundary
Examples
“Paper Title: Implications of recent sea level rise science for low-elevation areas in coastal cities of the conterminous U.S..”
The Huffington Post: David Kroodsma: Weekly Climate Science Roundup
“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.”
“A carbon budget for forests of the conterminous United States.”
“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).”
“At level III, the continental United States contains 104 ecoregions, whereas the conterminous United States has 84.”
“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).”
“At level III, the continental United States contains 104 ecoregions and the conterminous United States has 84 ecoregions (United States Environmental Protection Agency [USEPA] 2002).”
“At level III, the continental United States contains 104 ecoregions and the conterminous United States has 84 ecoregions (United States Environmental Protection Agency [USEPA] 2000).”
“Keys, 2001, Developing a spatial framework of common ecological regions for the conterminous United States, Environmental Management, v. 28, no. 3, p. 293-346.”
“In the first half of the 20th century, we came very close to scrubbing wolves off the face of the conterminous United States.”
Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle: Why We Need Wolves In Our Parks
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘conterminous’.
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Thresholds
we are all just passing through.
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Shadowkeir's list
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Words that, when contructed in a sentance, don't always make sense, but always sound good!
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Those I've come across and try to keep fresh within my mind.
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
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conglomeration
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vocab
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Mono word Metaphors
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A Nation Among Nations
Words taken from A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History by Thomas Bender.
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Known But Hazy
Words that I've repeatedly heard of, repeatedly looked up before, and still need a while to hammer into my head for sure.
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ruzuzu "In zoöl., having the same limitation or definition: said of classificatory groups. Thus, a genus which is the only one of a family is conterminous with it; the modern group Ichthyopsida is conterminous with the two classes Pisces and Amphibia. Also conterminate." --Cent. Dict.
Jun 6, 2012