coreferential
adjective/ˌkəʊrefəˈrenʃl/
/ˌkəʊrefəˈrenʃl/
(linguistics)- if two words or expressions are coreferential, they refer to the same thing. For example, in the sentence ‘I had a camera but I lost it’, ‘a camera’ and ‘it’ are coreferential.
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