Crossword clues for conterminous
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 leases that expire together.
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; Massachusetts and Conncecticut"; "the side of Germany conterminous with France"; "Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho"; "neighboring cities" [syn: abutting, adjacent, adjoining, contiguous, neighboring(a)]
of equal extent or scope or duration [syn: coextensive, coterminous]
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.