Coextensive - What does it mean?
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Having the same spatial limits or boundaries; sharing the same area.
Occurring over the same period of time; contemporaneous.
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.30:
(logic) Having the same extension—the object or set of objects to which a term refers.
* {{quote-book, year=1995, title=A Companion to Metaphysics, author=Jaegwon Kim, Ernest Sosa
coextensive
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* co-extensiveAdjective
(-)- The city and county of San Francisco are coextensive .
- His life is almost co-extensive with one of the most disastrous periods in Roman history.
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