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conterminous, a.|kənˈtɜːmɪnəs|
[f. L. contermin-us having a common border or boundary, bordering upon (f. con- together with + terminus boundary, limit) + -ous.]
1. Having a common boundary, bordering upon (each other).
1631Heylin St. George 151 The two people mention'd in the Gospell were conterminous. 1652Needham tr. Selden's Mare Cl. 27 The Dominion of the whole Earth..and of the conterminous Aer. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. vii. 192 In the Ports of the Sea conterminous to those Continents. 1846Grote Hist. Greece i. xv. I. 451 A township conterminous with Ilium. 1878Lecky Eng. in 18th C. II. viii. 491 Defending the side of Germany conterminous to France. 1880A. R. Wallace Isl. Life i. ii. 18 Allied species, whose ranges are separate but conterminous.
2. Meeting at their ends.
a1734North Life J. North (1826) III. 324 It often falls out that extremes are conterminous, and as contraries illustrate each other. 1862Todhunter Euclid (1876) 256 note, Let the triangle DEF be applied to the triangle ABC so that the bases may coincide, the equal sides be conterminous and the vertices fall on opposite sides of the base.
3. Coincident in their boundaries; exactly co-extensive.
1817Knox & Jebb Corr. II. 314 Observe, that our Roman Catholic and church of England parishes, are not exactly conterminous. 1875Bryce Holy Rom. Emp. ii. (ed. 5) 13 Christianity as well as civilization became conterminous with the Roman Empire.
b. Exactly coextensive in time, range, sense, etc.
1855Ess. Intuitive Morals 26 Were the whole law precisely conterminous with our desires. 1861Times 10 Oct., The language of Catullus is less conterminous with our own than that of any popular Latin poet. 1885Stevenson Dynamiter xiv. 204 You name a good influence, but one that need not be conterminous with life. |