conterminous
/kuhn-tur-muh-nuhs/US // kənˈtɜr mə nəs //UK // (kənˈtɜːmɪnəs) //
沿岸,沿海地区,沿海,沿途
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Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous.
- : meeting at the ends; without an intervening gap: In our calendar system, the close of one year is conterminous with the beginning of the next.
- : coterminous.
Synonyms & Antonyms
adj.contained within the same limits
Examples
When we remember that the dialects with which it was conterminous are lost, this is not remarkable.
In certain commodities the market is conterminous with the trade, that is, we have a world-market.
Hitherto the term Church had been “ideally conterminous” with the Jewish Church.
By this act the boundaries of the city were made conterminous for parliamentary, municipal and school board purposes.
Tribes with conterminous territories usually know what phratries and classes are equivalent in their systems.
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