The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coextensive \Co`ex*ten"sive\, a.
Equally extensive; having equal extent; as, consciousness and
knowledge are coextensive.
--Sir W. Hamilton. --
Co`ex*ten"sive*ly, adv. -- Co`ex*ten"sive*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Having the same spatial limits or boundary; sharing the same area. 2 Occurring over the same period of time; contemporaneous. 3 (context logic English) Having the same extension—the object or set of objects to which a term refers.
WordNet
adj. of equal extent or scope or duration [syn: coterminous, conterminous]
Usage examples of "coextensive".
States is granted to Congress in the same clause, and by the same words, as the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and is coextensive with it.
The law of nations seems of itself to presuppose a tribunal of nations with coextensive jurisdiction.
Constitution must have referred to a system of law coextensive with and operating uniformly in, the whole country.
As part of its general authority, the power to give effect to the judgment of its courts is coextensive with its territorial jurisdiction.
Their symbolism, like that of every other Deity, was coextensive with nature, and with the mind of man.
From the beginning until now, those who have undertaken to solve the great mystery of the creation of a material universe by an Immaterial Deity, have interposed between the two, and between God and man, divers manifestations of, or emanations from, or personified attributes or agents of, the Great Supreme God, who is coexistent with Time and coextensive with Space.
Life-Absolute of a wonderful, an ineffable, beauty: this must be the Collective Life, made up of all living things, or embracing all, forming a unity coextensive with all, as our universe is a unity embracing all the visible.
It is surely inconceivable that any living thing be beautiful failing a Life-Absolute of a wonderful, an ineffable, beauty: this must be the Collective Life, made up of all living things, or embracing all, forming a unity coextensive with all, as our universe is a unity embracing all the visible.
The provincials were subjects of Rome, but formed no part of the Roman people, and had no share in the political power of the state, till at a late period the privileges of Roman citizens were extended to them, and the Roman people became coextensive with the Roman empire.
I understood that this wretched lump was coextensive with my head itself.
At zero temperature, the Bell Continuum becomes coextensive with space-time.
Such a space might be so close to this one that the interval between them was an infinitesimal, yet unnoticed and unreachable, just as two planes may be considered as coextensive and separated by an unimaginably short interval, yet be perfectly discrete, one from the other.
The Desert, pale in the moon, was coextensive with the night, too huge for comfort or understanding, yet charged to the brim with infinite peace.