coextensive

Etymology

From co- + extensive.

adj

  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. (logic) 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

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