Coextensive

Quick meaning: Coextensive is an adjective meaning Having the same spatial limits or boundaries; sharing the same area.

Meaning

Having the same spatial limits or boundaries; sharing the same area.

More Meanings

1. Occurring over the same period of time; contemporaneous.
2. (logic) Having the same extension—the object or set of objects to which a term refers.

Example Sentences

The city and county of San Francisco are coextensive.

His life is almost co-extensive with one of the most disastrous periods in Roman history.

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).

And then there are the catch-all provisions: rules that allow police to stop drivers for conduct that complies with all the rules on the books, but that officers consider "imprudent" or "unreasonable" under the circumstances, or that describe the offense in language so broad as to make a vioation virtually coextensive with the officer's unreviewable personal judgment.

Word Forms

• co-extensive

Synonyms for coextensive

Depending on context, synonyms include commensurate, coterminous.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include coterminous, commensurate, co-extensive, conterminate, conterminant, conterminable.

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