coterminous

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  1. adjective Variant of conterminous.

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  • At the time of the reorganization, Hibbard and Woolf were appointed to four year terms coterminous with the Governor's. —  CapeCodToday Blog Chowder
  • One, considering democracy to be coterminous with the evolution of modernity in the West, beginning sometime in the seventeenth century. —  Kafila
  • Suppose we take democracy to be coterminous with the story of modernity, we will come across two distinct strands. —  Kafila
  • Fish and Wildlife Service refuges with those counties distant from either type of protected area in the coterminous United States. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Sandy Capriglione of Central Valley, who ran unsuccessfully for a trustee seat and who is a member of the Zoning Board, questioned the status of the coterminous government.
 

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/koʊˈtərmɪnəs/
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