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MARCH 25, 2017
coterminous,
adjective [koh-TUR-muh-nuh s]
1. having the same border or covering the same area.
2. being the same in extent; coextensive in range or scope.
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would reach the city of Gugs--which is coterminous with the whole
kingdom--through the proper burrows, emerging in a cemetery not far
from the stair-containing Tower of Koth.
-- H. P. Lovecraft (18901937), The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath, 1943
ORIGINCoterminous came to English in the late 1700s. It is a
reformation of the earlier adjective conterminous.