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Definition of coextensive in English: coextensiveadjective ˌkəʊɪkˈstɛnsɪvˌkoʊəkˈstɛnsɪv 1Extending over the same area, extent, or time. the control of conscious attention is not at all coextensive with information processing Example sentencesExamples - Educators often assumed that religious principles and biblical knowledge were coextensive with science, history, and languages.
- While the relationship of magic to science was not one of pure antagonism, neither were they coextensive.
- The range of problems they can handle will be coextensive with the range to which the human mind has been applied.
- He has this blinkered view in which the classic Darwinian question of adaptation is somehow becoming coextensive with all of evolutionary theory.
- I tend to get a bit spun if people ask me what I mean, since in terms of the way I interface with this forum, ‘what I mean’ is coextensive with ‘what I have written’.
- It is a collective term for the geographic and social varieties of English spoken in that part of the US roughly coextensive with the former slave-holding states.
- Acceptance ‘for the group’ with collective commitment can be viewed in this context as coextensive with acceptance in the we-mode.
- There was an Enlightenment tendency to believe that the same moral principles were to be found in every society, so universality must have seemed coextensive with humanity.
- The notion of personhood identifies a category of morally considerable beings that is thought to be coextensive with humanity.
- Although we all want laws which are moral, the legal and the moral are not the same thing: they are not coextensive domains.
- First, there are the promotional or attitude groups: these advocate a cause and their potential membership is, in theory, coextensive with the entire population.
- It certainly includes his notion of falsifiability, but it is hardly coextensive with it.
- So advertising is now officially coextensive with all media?
- The notion of the will, as I am employing it, is not coextensive with the notion of first-order desires.
- By plotting the enemy strongholds on the map it is at once evident that they are coextensive with two pathways.
- Indeed, once the principle is recognized, the relevant database is essentially coextensive with natural history.
- There is the mistaken belief that collective security is coextensive with the entire security structure, which it is not.
- The process of acquiring a self is coextensive with the socialization of a child.
- A speech community is not necessarily coextensive with a language community.
- It is of more than passing interest that for thousands of years economic international systems were not coextensive with military-political ones.
- 1.1 (of a term) denoting the same referent as another.
Example sentencesExamples - We are forced to rely on necessary truths because truth values cannot pick out synonymous pairs - otherwise you fail to account for coextensive terms.
- It is coextensive with general election, but is broader than special election.
- These terms are made coextensive with the temporal span of Maisie's childhood; as the preface puts it, ‘she wonders… to the end-the death of her childhood’.
Rhymes apprehensive, comprehensive, defensive, expensive, extensive, intensive, offensive, ostensive, pensive, suspensive Definition of coextensive in US English: coextensiveadjectiveˌkōəkˈstensivˌkoʊəkˈstɛnsɪv 1Extending over the same space or time; corresponding exactly in extent. Example sentencesExamples - A speech community is not necessarily coextensive with a language community.
- He has this blinkered view in which the classic Darwinian question of adaptation is somehow becoming coextensive with all of evolutionary theory.
- Educators often assumed that religious principles and biblical knowledge were coextensive with science, history, and languages.
- The process of acquiring a self is coextensive with the socialization of a child.
- First, there are the promotional or attitude groups: these advocate a cause and their potential membership is, in theory, coextensive with the entire population.
- The notion of personhood identifies a category of morally considerable beings that is thought to be coextensive with humanity.
- It is a collective term for the geographic and social varieties of English spoken in that part of the US roughly coextensive with the former slave-holding states.
- So advertising is now officially coextensive with all media?
- The range of problems they can handle will be coextensive with the range to which the human mind has been applied.
- Acceptance ‘for the group’ with collective commitment can be viewed in this context as coextensive with acceptance in the we-mode.
- While the relationship of magic to science was not one of pure antagonism, neither were they coextensive.
- Although we all want laws which are moral, the legal and the moral are not the same thing: they are not coextensive domains.
- It certainly includes his notion of falsifiability, but it is hardly coextensive with it.
- There was an Enlightenment tendency to believe that the same moral principles were to be found in every society, so universality must have seemed coextensive with humanity.
- By plotting the enemy strongholds on the map it is at once evident that they are coextensive with two pathways.
- The notion of the will, as I am employing it, is not coextensive with the notion of first-order desires.
- I tend to get a bit spun if people ask me what I mean, since in terms of the way I interface with this forum, ‘what I mean’ is coextensive with ‘what I have written’.
- There is the mistaken belief that collective security is coextensive with the entire security structure, which it is not.
- It is of more than passing interest that for thousands of years economic international systems were not coextensive with military-political ones.
- Indeed, once the principle is recognized, the relevant database is essentially coextensive with natural history.
- 1.1 (of a term) denoting the same referent as another.
Example sentencesExamples - We are forced to rely on necessary truths because truth values cannot pick out synonymous pairs - otherwise you fail to account for coextensive terms.
- These terms are made coextensive with the temporal span of Maisie's childhood; as the preface puts it, ‘she wonders… to the end-the death of her childhood’.
- It is coextensive with general election, but is broader than special election.
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