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The quality of occupying the same position or area in space
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coincidence
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Wikipedia
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Coincidence is a 1921 American silent comedy film starring Robert Harron and June Walker . It was Harron's first starring role after signing a deal with Metro Pictures Corporation , as well as his last film; Harron died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 Of objects, the property of being coincident; occurring at the same time or place. 2 Of events, the appearance of a meaningful connection when there is none. 3 (context analysis English) A coincidence point. 4 (cx geometry English) A fixed point of ...
WordNet
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n. an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental [syn: happenstance ] the quality of occupying the same position or area in space; "he waited for the coincidence of the target and the cross hairs" the temporal property of two ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "exact correspondence in substance or nature," from French coincidence , from coincider , from Medieval Latin coincidere (see coincide ). From 1640s as "occurrence or existence during the same time." Meaning "a concurrence of events with no apparent ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES happy coincidence ▪ By a happy coincidence , James was also in town that weekend. mere coincidence ▪ It can’t be a mere coincidence that they left at the same time. pure coincidence ▪ It was pure coincidence that I arrived ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coincidence \Co*in"ci*dence\ (k[-o]*[i^]n"s[i^]*dens), n. [Cf. F. co["i]ncidence.] The condition of occupying the same place in space; as, the coincidence of circles, surfaces, etc. --Bentley. The condition or fact of happening at the same time; as, the ...
Usage examples of coincidence.
The coincidence of this festival with the Assumption gave rise to adulatory rodomontades of the most absurd description.
As yet she was simply startled by the coincidence, her brain had not had time to absorb its full significance--that Mama Therese should receive a communication from these distinctively named solicitors on the evening of the very day on which they advertised concerning a young woman named Sofia!
Just then, she remembered the spectacle she had witnessed in a chamber of Udolpho, and, by an odd kind of coincidence, the alarming words, that had accidentally met her eye in the MS.
To the apocalyptist, who literally awaits the Great Uncovering, all coincidence is synchronicity, all accident revelation.
Church of the Apocrypha to locate this Brother Titus and find out if he is coincidence or part of it somehow.
There are only two hotels worthy of the name in Arles, and the coincidence of meeting again was of the very slightest.
This circumstance, which was really a mere coincidence, rendered our meeting still more wonderful, and astonished me as much as it did her.
It is this abnormal historic-mindedness of the primal race--a chance circumstance operating, through coincidence, miraculously in our favor--which made the carvings so awesomely informative to us, and which caused us to place their photography and transcription above all other considerations.
It was expecting too much of coincidence to believe that the Baguette disturbance and the arc were unrelated.
It was no coincidence that the three major clades had never fought for possession of the Phemus Circle.
Chelsea Wright, a college student who, in a bizarre coincidence, anonymously donated eggs at the Westwood fertility clinic under investigation.
Jonathan Fearn dying of injuries received, and Charlie Courage being shot just happen to be coincidences?
That this connection of the goiter and at least one set of symptoms was no coincidence was clearly demonstrated in 1883, when several Swiss surgeons completely removed goitrous thyroids from 46 patients.
It was not by accident or coincidence that the rights to freedom in speech and press were coupled in a single guaranty with the rights of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition for redress of grievances.
I knew his wonderful cure had been due to a singular coincidence, I had no desire to expose myself to public ridicule.