Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having the same limits, boundaries, or scope.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the same extension.
- Occupying the same extent of space or duration of time.
- In logic, having the same breadth, or logical extension.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Equally extensive; having equal extent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having the
same spatiallimits orboundaries ; sharing the same area. - adjective Occurring over the same period of time;
contemporaneous . - adjective logic Having the same
extension —the object or set of objects to which a term refers.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being of equal extent or scope or duration
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Examples
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If so, then reports of what a compass indicates exhibit one of Chisholm's features of intensionality, namely coextensive terms are not freely substituable salva veritate in such reports.
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Often, alternative claims of breach of fiduciary duty are routinely dismissed as included in, or "coextensive" with the legal malpractice claims.
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After all, if Congress created a right coextensive with the Fourth Amendment, the Fourth Amendment rule would never be reached: Under the principle of Constitutional avoidance, courts generally would resolve cases on statutory grounds rather than constitutional ones.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Thoughts on the Oral Argument in City of Ontario v. Quon
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The point is not that environmentalists need something new to call themselves, but that the class of climate hawks is not coextensive with the class of environmentalists.
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That they happen to be coextensive in most cases with densely populated areas known as “cities” is not acknowledged.
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Or the state could provide that senators are “automatically recalled” every two years, dividing the six-year term into two-year subterms coextensive with Houseterms.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Recalls of U.S. Senators Are Unconstitutional
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The point is not that environmentalists need something new to call themselves, but that the class of climate hawks is not coextensive with the class of environmentalists.
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The point is not that environmentalists need something new to call themselves, but that the class of climate hawks is not coextensive with the class of environmentalists.
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My thesis in this series is that access to legal services is not coextensive with access to lawyers.
Access to Legal Services: Lessons from the Medical Profession (Part 1 of 3) : Law is Cool
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The point is not that environmentalists need something new to call themselves, but that the class of climate hawks is not coextensive with the class of environmentalists.
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