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coextensive

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co·ex·ten·sive  (kk-stnsv)
adj.
Having the same limits, boundaries, or scope.
coex·tensive·ly adv.
coextensive
Adjective
covering the same area, either literally or figuratively: the concepts of `the nation' and `the people' are not coextensive
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Adj.1.coextensive - being of equal extent or scope or duration
coterminous, conterminous
commensurate - corresponding in size or degree or extent; "pay should be commensurate with the time worked"


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If, on the contrary, Britain had been situated on the continent, and had been compelled, as she would have been, by that situation, to make her military establishments at home coextensive with those of the other great powers of Europe, she, like them, would in all probability be, at this day, a victim to the absolute power of a single man.
Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton by Hamilton, Alexander View in context
The ideas are sometimes described as many, coextensive with the universals of sense and also with the first principles of ethics; or again they are absorbed into the single idea of good, and subordinated to it.
Meno by Plato View in context
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