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Coextensive vs Continguous - What's the difference?

coextensive | continguous |

Continguous is likely misspelled.


Continguous has no English definition.

As an adjective coextensive

is having the same spatial limits or boundaries; sharing the same area.

coextensive

English

Alternative forms

* co-extensive

Adjective

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  • 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

    continguous

    Not English

    Continguous has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

    English words similar to 'continguous':

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