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con⋅ter⋅mi⋅nous

   [kuhn-tur-muh-nuhs]
–adjective
1. having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous.
2. meeting at the ends; without an intervening gap: In our calendar system, the close of one year is conterminous with the beginning of the next.
3. coterminous.
Also, con⋅ter⋅mi⋅nal, coterminal.

Origin:
1625–35; < L conterminus having a common border with, equiv. to con- con- + terminus terminus; see -ous
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