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Coterminous

Bordering; conterminous; -- followed by with.

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Commensurate 84% connected

To reduce to a common measure.

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Commensurate 84% connected

To reduce to a common measure.

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Coextensive 92% connected

Equally extensive; having equal extent; as, consciousness and knowledge are coextensive.

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Conterminous 92% connected

Having the same bounds, or limits; bordering upon; contiguous.

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Adjacent adjective · 78% connection

Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway.

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Attiguous adjective · 78% connection

Touching; bordering; contiguous.

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Bank noun · 78% connection

The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow.

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Billion noun · 78% connection

the number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros; in the United Kingdom the usage followed in the United States is frequen…

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Carob noun · 78% connection

An evergreen leguminous tree (Ceratania Siliqua) found in the countries bordering the Mediterranean; the St. John's bread; -- called a…

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Circumjacence noun · 78% connection

Condition of being circumjacent, or of bordering on every side.

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Circumjacent adjective · 78% connection

Lying round; bordering on every side.

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Coastal adjective · 78% connection

located on or near or bordering on a coast; "coastal marshes"; "coastal waters"; "the Atlantic coastal plain"

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Conterminable adjective · 78% connection

Having the same bounds; terminating at the same time or place; conterminous.

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Conterminal adjective · 78% connection

Conterminous.

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Conterminant adjective · 78% connection

Having the same limits; ending at the same time; conterminous.

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Conterminate adjective · 78% connection

Having the same bounds; conterminous.

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Creole noun · 78% connection

One born of European parents in the American colonies of France or Spain or in the States which were once such colonies, esp. a person…

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Dactyl noun · 78% connection

A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tegm/n/…

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Danubian adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to, or bordering on, the river Danube.

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Elderly adjective · 78% connection

Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.

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Epilepsia major noun · 78% connection

epilepsy in which the attacks involve loss of consciousness and tonic spasms of the musculature followed by generalized jerking

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Fasciola noun · 78% connection

A band of gray matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution.

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