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What does conterminous mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word conterminous? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Meeting end to end or at the ends.
  2. (geography) Having matching boundaries; or, adjoining and sharing a boundary.
  3. Having the same scope, range of meaning, or extent in time.
  4. (law) Said of linked or related property leases that expire together.
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My argument, in fact, is conterminous with Section 3.5 of this book.
Estimates for the conterminous United States, an area of about 7,770,000 square kilometres, give some 5,230,000 kilometres of channel length.
When we remember that the dialects with which it was conterminous are lost, this is not remarkable.
Both the highest and lowest points in the 48 conterminous states are in the state of California Mount Whitney and Death Valley, respectively.
Arizona achieved statehood on February 14, 1912 the last of the 48 conterminous United States to be admitted to the union.
In 1928 it became the first company to market in the conterminous 48 states, and in the 1930s it began operations in Canada, Colombia, and Venezuela.

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