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adj.
相接的
连接的
有共同边界的
在共同边界内的
con·ter·mi·nous
kn tuhr mih ns
conterminously (adv.), conterminousness (n.)
Adjective
1. connecting without a break; within a common boundary;
"the 48 conterminous states"
"the contiguous 48 states"
2. 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"
3. of equal extent or scope or duration
"在边界接触,有相同的限制",出现在1670年代,源自拉丁语 conterminus "紧邻,拥有共同的边界",它的前缀来自于已同化的 com "一起,跟" (见 con-),结尾来自于 terminus "末端、边界线"(见 terminus)。相关词语: Conterminously; conterminousness。
Latin conterminus (from con- con- + -terminus, adjective derivative of terminus "boundary marker, limit") + -ous — more at term >entry 1
The first known use of conterminous was in 1631
1 The width of the reconciliation is the same as that of the creation; they are conterminous.
2 The italicization is important: A poet more iconic, more conterminous with the idea of America cannot be easily found.
3 Instinct is a primitive and general instigation, coeval and conterminous with life.
4 What is the difference between adjacent and adjoining? contiguous? conterminous?
5 The civil parishes and those that are ecclesiastical are not always conterminous.
6 And that time, oddly enough, was almost conterminous with the greatest era of the world's literature, the greatest era of political discovery, and the greatest era of Empire-making.
7 It is an actual place that is also conterminous with a brand.
8 But specific characters are not conterminous with adaptive characters; for innumerable adaptive characters are not distinctive of species, but of genera, families, orders, classes, and sub-kingdoms.
9 They were to be placed under the supervision of the Council at the request "and at the expense" of one or more of the conterminous States.
10 In certain commodities the market is conterminous with the trade, that is, we have a world-market.
11 In either case, the rights of each member of the community are bounded only by the conterminous rights of others.
12 The Jili.—These are conterminous with the Singpho; to whom they are closely allied, in language, at least; seventy words out of one hundred agreeing in the two vocabularies.
13 The various clans drifted slowly this way and that among the plains and mountains, as the prospects of pasturage, the fortune of war, or the pressure of conterminous hordes might incline them.
14 Geography Canada Location: Northern North America, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean on the east, North Pacific Ocean on the west, and the Arctic Ocean on the north, north of the conterminous US Geographic coordinates:
15 For ordinary purposes it is best to make the patristic period conterminous with the life of the ancient Catholic Church.
16 As applied by Linnaeus, the name Cactus is almost conterminous with what is now regarded as the natural order Cactaceae, which embraces several modern genera.
17 The Germanic Confederation was composed of kingdoms and principalities that are conterminous.
18 Besides these political divisions there are certain parts of Germany which, not conterminous with political boundaries, retain appellations derived either from former tribal settlements or from divisions of the old Holy Roman Empire.
19 the county and the school district are conterminous
20 Hitherto the term Church had been “ideally conterminous” with the Jewish Church.
1 邻接的
vicinal adjoining circumjacent approximal contact immediate approximate contiguous abutting coterminous next neighboring close-in next to
2 有同一界限的
3 同样广泛的
4 毗邻的
5 同广的
6 有共同边界的
8 接界
9 邻接
vicinal abutment border neighbour adjoining contiguous circumjacent approximal near contiguity abuttal march butt confine adjoin touch bound abut contact immediate approximate abutting coterminous join verge neighbor next neighboring close-in jostle border upon abut against knee by knee next to
10 毗连的
11 同大的