• Coextensive

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /ËŒkəʊɪkˈstÉ›nsɪv/
    • US IPA: /ËŒkoÊŠÉ›kˈstÉ›nsɪv/

    Alternative forms

    Origin

    From - + extensive.

    Full definition of coextensive

    Adjective

    coextensive

    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.
      • 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.30:His life is almost co-extensive with one of the most disastrous periods in Roman history.
    3. (logic) Having the same extension—the object or set of objects to which a term refers.
      • 1995, Jaegwon Kim, Ernest Sosa, A Companion to Metaphysics, 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).
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