Having a common boundary or limit; sharing borders with something else.
From con- (together) + terminal (from Latin terminus, boundary). Formed in English as a technical term in geography and geology.
Cartographers and geologists invented this word to describe countries or geological formations that share boundaries—it's the formal, technical way to say what 'neighboring' means, and it appears most often in dry 19th-century geographical surveys.
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