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Coextensive vs Conterminous - What's the difference?

coextensive | conterminous |

As adjectives the difference between coextensive and conterminous

is that coextensive is having the same spatial limits or boundaries; sharing the same area while conterminous is meeting end-to-end or at the ends.

coextensive

English

Alternative forms

* co-extensive

Adjective

(-)
  • Having the same spatial limits or boundaries; sharing the same area.
    • The city and county of San Francisco are coextensive .
  • Occurring over the same period of time; contemporaneous.
  • * 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.30:
    • His life is almost co-extensive with one of the most disastrous periods in Roman history.
  • (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
    • citation , passage=Coextensive expressions with different intensions cannot in general be substituted for one another within an expression e'' while preserving the extension of ''e (assuming that the extension of a declarative sentence is its truth value).}}

    Related terms

    * coterminous * extensive

    conterminous

    English

    Alternative forms

    * coterminous

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Meeting end-to-end or at the ends.
  • (geography) Having matching boundaries; or, adjoining and sharing a boundary.
    • New York's borough of Brooklyn and Kings County are conterminous .
    To get a building warrant he had to show the plans to "conterminous proprietors", neighbours with whom his property shared a boundary.
  • Having the same scope, range of meaning, or extent in time.
  • (legal) Said of linked or related property leases that expire together.

    • See also

    * coextensive * contiguous