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Coextensive
Coextensive meaning
Having the same spatial limits or boundaries; sharing the same area. | Occurring over the same period of time; contemporaneous. | Having the same extension—the object or set of objects to which a term refers.
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Morality and criminality are not coextensive.
Although the counties still exist as subdivisions of the state, in reference the names Louisville and Lexington are used to refer to the entire area coextensive with the former cities and counties.
In the larger sense of the word, Aristotle makes philosophy coextensive with reasoning, which he also would describe as "science".
The appellation may date to the period, prior to 1856, when the City of San Francisco and the County of San Francisco were separate entities, the latter then coextensive with contemporary San Mateo County and San Francisco City-County.
The City of Greater New York displays many features associated with independent cities but is, in fact, a sui generis municipality that is coextensive with five counties.