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conterminous

adjective as in contained within the same limits

adjective as in having a common boundary

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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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On this page you'll find 13 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to conterminous, such as: coextensive, coincident, commensurate, coterminous, equal, and like.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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