Conterminous vs Contiguous - What's the difference?
conterminous | contiguous |
Meeting end-to-end or at the ends.
(geography) Having matching boundaries; or, adjoining and sharing a boundary.
Having the same scope, range of meaning, or extent in time.
(legal) Said of linked or related property leases that expire together.
connected; touching; abutting
adjacent; neighbouring/neighboring
* 1730–1774 , , Introductory to Switzerland
* 1835 , William Scoresby, Memorials of the Sea (page 59)
connecting without a break
* 1886 , Frank Hamilton Cushing, A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuñi Culture Growth :
As adjectives the difference between conterminous and contiguous
is that conterminous is meeting end-to-end or at the ends while contiguous is connected; touching; abutting.conterminous
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Alternative forms
* coterminousAdjective
(-)- 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.
See also
* coextensive * contiguouscontiguous
English
Adjective
(-)- Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small,
- He sees his little lot the lot of all;
- Sees no contiguous palace rear its head
- To shame the meanness of his humble shed;
- the usual quietness of the day, with us, was broken in upon by the shout of success from the pursuing boats, followed by vehement respondings from the contiguous ship.
- The forty-eight contiguous states.
- Supposing three such houses to be contiguous to a central one, each separated from the latter by a straight wall.