coextensive
/ˌkoʊ.ɛkˈstɛn.sɪv/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.82 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Occurring over the same period of time; contemporaneous.
Example Sentences
- "The city and county of San Francisco are coextensive."
- "And then there are the catch-all provisions: rules that allow police to stop drivers for conduct that complies with all the rules on the books, but that officers consider "imprudent" or "unreasonable" under the circumstances, or that describe the offense in language so broad as to make a vioation virtually coextensive with the officer's unreviewable personal judgment."
- "His life is almost co-extensive with one of the most disastrous periods in Roman history."
- "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)."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin co-lbor. English co- Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *ten- Proto-Indo-European *tend- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *téndeti Proto-Italic *tendō Latin tendō Latin extendō Latin extēnsus Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Late Latin extensīvusder. Middle English extensive English extensive English coextensive From co- + extensive.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌkoʊ.ɛkˈstɛn.sɪv/
- British English: /ˌkəʊ.ɪkˈstɛn.sɪv/