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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>==English==<br />
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===Alternative forms===<br />
* {{l|en|conterminous}}<br />
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===Etymology===<br />
From {{der|en|la|conterminus}}, from {{m|la|con-||with}} + {{m|la|terminus||border, end}}. The spelling with ''co-'' instead of ''con-'' is probably influenced by the related prefix {{m|en|co-}}.<br />
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===Pronunciation===<br />
* {{a|UK}} {{IPA|en|/kəˈtəː.mɪ.nəs/}}<br />
* {{a|US}} {{IPA|en|/kəˈtɝ.mɪ.nəs/}}<br />
* {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-coterminous.wav |Audio (Southern England)}}<br />
* {{hyphenation|en|co|ter|mi|nous}}<br />
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===Adjective===<br />
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# Meeting [[end-to-end|end to end]] or at the ends.<br />
# {{lb|en|geography}} Having matching boundaries; or, [[adjoin|adjoining]] and sharing a [[boundary]].<br />
#: {{ux|en|New York's borough of Brooklyn and Kings County are '''coterminous'''.}}<br />
#: {{ux|en|To get a building warrant he had to show the plans to "'''coterminous''' proprietors", neighbours with whom his property shared a boundary.}}<br />
#* {{RQ:Trollope North America|volume=II|passage=It has been the close vicinity of slave-owners to each other, the fact that their lands have been '''coterminous''', that theirs was especially a cotton district, which has tempted them to secession.}}<br />
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1915|volume=5|title=The Seigneurs of Old Canada|series=Chronicles of Canada|author=William Bennett Munro; et al.|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4655/pg4655.html|passage=These eighty-two parishes were roughly '''coterminous''' with the existing seigneuries, but not always so.}}<br />
# {{lb|en|by extension}} Having the same [[scope]], [[range]] of meaning, or [[extent]] in time.<br />
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1919|title=Old and New Masters|author=Robert Lynd|authorlink=Robert Wilson Lynd|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12600/pg12600-images.html|passage=But it is purely fantastic unless we bear in mind that the governing class has been continually compelled to enlarge itself, and that its tendency is reluctantly to go on doing so until in the end it will be '''coterminous''' with the "governed class."}}<br />
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1921|author=Edward Sapir|authorlink=Edward Sapir|title=Language: An introduction to the study of speech|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12629/pg12629-images.html|passage=From this it follows at once that language and thought are not strictly '''coterminous'''.}}<br />
#* {{quote-book|en|author=China Miéville|authorlink=China Miéville|title=A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto|year=2022|oclc=1331706453|chapter=4|passage=The elision of moral and moralising arguments is common, but the two aren't '''coterminous'''.}}<br />
# {{lb|en|legal}} Said of linked or related property leases that expire together.<br />
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====Translations====<br />
{{trans-top|meeting end-to-end}}<br />
* Polish: {{t+|pl|ościenny}}<br />
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{{trans-top|adjoining}}<br />
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|съседен}}<br />
* Czech: {{t+|cs|sousední}}<br />
* French: {{t+|fr|limitrophe}}<br />
* Icelandic: [[með sameiginleg landamæri]]; [[sem liggur innan einna og sömu landamæra]]; [[samlægur]]<br />
* Russian: {{t+|ru|смежные}}<br />
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{{trans-top|having the same scope, range, or extent}}<br />
* Icelandic: [[með sameiginleg landamæri]]; [[sem liggur innan einna og sömu landamæra]]; [[samlægur]]<br />
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{{trans-top|of leases: linked or related}}<br />
* Icelandic: {{t|is|samlægur}}<br />
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====See also====<br />
* {{l|en|coextensive}}<br />
* {{l|en|contiguous}}</div>Ajay Kumar