coextensive

adj
/ˌkəʊ.ɪkˈstɛn.sɪv/UK/ˌkoʊ.ɛkˈstɛn.sɪv/US

Etymology

From co- + extensive.

  1. derived from extensus
  2. derived from extensīvus
  3. prefixed as coextensive — “co + extensive

Definitions

  1. Having the same spatial limits or boundaries

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

    • The city and county of San Francisco are coextensive.
  2. Occurring over the same period of time

    Occurring over the same period of time; contemporaneous.

    • His life is almost co-extensive with one of the most disastrous periods in Roman history.
  3. Having the same extension—the object or set of objects to which a term refers.

    • 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).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for coextensive. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA