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co-extensive

co-extensive is the alternative spelling of coextensive.

Meaning of coextensive

Adjective

coextensive (not comparable)

  1. Having the same spatial limits or boundaries; sharing the same area.
    • The city and county of San Francisco are coextensive.
  2. Occurring over the same period of time; contemporaneous.
    • His life is almost co-extensive with one of the most disastrous periods in Roman history.1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.30
  3. Having the same extension—the object or set of objects to which a term refers.
    • Coextensive expressions with different intensions cannot in general be substituted for one another within an expression e while preserving the extension of e (assuming that the extension of a declarative sentence is its truth value).1995, Jaegwon Kim, Ernest Sosa, A Companion to Metaphysics

Questions about co-extensive

What is co-extensive the alternative spelling of?
Co-extensive is the alternative spelling of coextensive.

Words near co-extensive in the dictionary

  1. co-exports
  2. co-express
  3. co-expressed
  4. co-expresses
  5. co-expressing
  6. co-extensive
  7. co-father
  8. co-father-in-law
  9. co-fathers
  10. co-fathers-in-law
  11. co-fed

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