coterminous

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While satellite imagery has been around for decades, without recent advances in cloud computing, Lark says it was impossible to classify the nearly 2 billion acres of land in the coterminous U.S.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2024

Wilson mistakenly assumed that “nations” and “peoples” are synonyms, or that they designate coterminous entities.

From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2022

An aerial view, the flattened sidewalk is coterminous with the flat paper on which Lawrence painted, filling it edge to edge.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2018

Or If the Bus is coterminous with all space-time, you may wonder, what if I travel in time as well as space?

From Nature • Oct. 24, 2017

And neither is coterminous with the ‘Amazonian rainforest.”

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann