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单词 coextensive
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Definition of coextensive in English:

coextensive

adjective 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. 1.1 (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:

coextensive

adjectiveˌkōəkˈstensivˌkoʊəkˈstɛnsɪv
  • 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. 1.1 (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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