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Vote against the final part accepting nothing without a break
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conterminous
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. connecting without a break; within a common boundary; "the 48 conterminous states"; "the contiguous 48 states" [syn: contiguous ] having a common boundary or edge; touching; "abutting lots"; "adjoining rooms"; "Rhode Island has two bordering states; ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Meeting end-to-end or at the ends. 2 (context geography English) Having matching boundaries; or, adjoin and sharing a boundary. 3 Having the same scope, range of meaning, or extent in time. 4 (context legal English) Said of linked or related property ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, from Latin conterminus "bordering upon, having a common boundary," from com- "together, with" (see com- ) + terminus (see terminus ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conterminous \Con*ter"mi*nous\, a. [L. conterminus. Cf. Conterminous .] Having the same bounds, or limits; bordering upon; contiguous. This conformed so many of them as were conterminous to the colonies and garrisons, to the Roman laws. --Sir M. Hale.
Usage examples of conterminous.
Is there not hope for democracy if in the places of its greatest strain and stress, in the midst of its fiercest passions, there is a deliberate, affectionate, intelligent striving toward cities that have been revealed not in apocalyptic vision but in the long-studied plans of terrestrial architects and engineers and altruistic souls, such as that of Jane Addams, cities that to such amphionic music shall out of the shards of the past build themselves silently, impregnably--if not in a diviner clime, at any rate in a diviner spirit--on shores and slopes and plains of that broad valley of the new democracy, conterminous in its mountain boundaries with New France in America?
Coal deposits within the conterminous United States represent a third of the entire world's known supply and are more than enough to satisfy U.
In this epigram, Burroughs suggests that parasitism -- corruption, plagiarism, surplus appropriation -- is in fact conterminous with life itself.