Coextensive meaning

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Having the same limits, boundaries, or scope.
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Having the same extent in time or space.
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Having the same spatial limits or boundaries; sharing the same area.

The city and county of San Francisco are coextensive.

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Occurring over the same period of time; contemporaneous.
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(logic) Having the same extension—the object or set of objects to which a term refers.
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Origin of coextensive

Coextensive Sentence Examples

  • There is only one of the four in which our knowledge is coextensive with our ideas.

  • As early as the 12th century B.C., Chinese chronicles, which are almost the only source for the history of Cambodia till the 5th century A.D., mention a region called Fou-nan, in later times appearing under the name of Tchin-la; embracing the basin of the Menam, it extended eastwards to the Mekong and may be considered approximately coextensive with the Khmer kingdom.

  • The right of pardoning is coextensive with the right of punishing.

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