Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a boundary in common; contiguous.
- adjective Contained in the same boundaries; coextensive.
- adjective Having the same scope, range of meaning, or extent in time.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the same limit; bordering; touching at the boundary; contiguous.
- . Having the same borders or limits, and hence of the same extent or size; of equal extension.
- . In zoöl., having the same limitation or definition: said of classificatory groups.
- Also
coterminous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the same bounds, or limits; bordering upon; contiguous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Meeting
end-to-end or at the ends. - adjective geography
Adjoining ; sharing aboundary . - adjective Having the same
scope ,range of meaning, orextent in time. - adjective law Said of linked or related property leases that expire together.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching
- adjective being of equal extent or scope or duration
- adjective connecting without a break; within a common boundary
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Paper Title: Implications of recent sea level rise science for low-elevation areas in coastal cities of the conterminous U.S..
David Kroodsma: Weekly Climate Science Roundup David Kroodsma 2011
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Paper Title: Implications of recent sea level rise science for low-elevation areas in coastal cities of the conterminous U.S..
David Kroodsma: Weekly Climate Science Roundup David Kroodsma 2011
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Recent photographic documentation of poor siting conditions at stations in the U.S. Historical Climatology Network USHCN has led to questions regarding the reliability of surface temperature trends over the conterminous U.S.
The hedgehog and the hyena EliRabett 2010
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Recent photographic documentation of poor siting conditions at stations in the U.S. Historical Climatology Network USHCN has led to questions regarding the reliability of surface temperature trends over the conterminous U.S.
Archive 2010-01-01 EliRabett 2010
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At level III, the continental United States contains 104 ecoregions and the conterminous United States has 84 ecoregions (United States Environmental Protection Agency [USEPA], 2003).
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At level III, the continental United States contains 104 ecoregions and the conterminous United States has 84 ecoregions (United States Environmental Protection Agency [USEPA] 2002).
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A carbon budget for forests of the conterminous United States.
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At level III, the continental United States contains 104 ecoregions and the conterminous United States has 84 ecoregions (United States Environmental Protection Agency [USEPA] 2000).
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The first compilation of ecoregions in the conterminous United States by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) was performed at a relatively cursory scale (1: 3,168,000), and was published at a smaller scale (1: 7,500,000) (Omernik, 1987).
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At level III, the continental United States contains 104 ecoregions, whereas the conterminous United States has 84.
ruzuzu commented on the word conterminous
"In zoöl., having the same limitation or definition: said of classificatory groups. Thus, a genus which is the only one of a family is conterminous with it; the modern group Ichthyopsida is conterminous with the two classes Pisces and Amphibia. Also conterminate." --Cent. Dict.
June 6, 2012