coextensive

coextensive

coextensive (not comparable)

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^[1]:

     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).

Altri significati:

(logic) Having the same extension—the object or set of objects to which a term refers.

Having the same limits or boundaries; sharing the same area.

Traduzione 'veloce'

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