The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coincide \Co`in*cide"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Coincided; p. pr. & vb. n. Coinciding.] [L. co- + incidere to fall on; in + cadere to fall: cf. F. co["i]ncider. See Chance, n.]
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To occupy the same place in space, as two equal triangles, when placed one on the other.
If the equator and the ecliptic had coincided, it would have rendered the annual revoluton of the earth useless.
--Cheyne. To occur at the same time; to be contemporaneous; as, the fall of Granada coincided with the discovery of America.
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To correspond exactly; to agree; to concur; as, our aims coincide.
The rules of right jugdment and of good ratiocination often coincide with each other.
--Watts.
Wiktionary
n. Act or situation by which things coincide; coincidence. vb. (present participle of coincide English)
WordNet
adj. occurring or operating at the same time; "a series of coincident events" [syn: coincident, coincidental, concurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous]
matching point for point; "coincident circles" [syn: coincident]
Usage examples of "coinciding".
Two planes, crossing each other at a right angle, coinciding with the vertical and horizontal central sections, have been found better than a solid block.
A student sits on a pallet repeating phrases from a textbook, his voice half prayerful with drowsiness, as everywhere, mathematics coinciding with the will to live.
Even if we had an empty hallucination for every case coinciding with death, we could not set the coincidences down to mere chance.
As there are, undeniably, many examples of hallucinatory appearances of persons in perfect health and ordinary circumstances, the question has been asked whether there are more cases of an apparition coinciding with death than, according to the doctrine of chances, there ought to be.
But as the last whelmings intermixingly poured themselves over the sunken head of the Indian at the mainmast, leaving a few inches of the erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag, which calmly undulated, with ironical coincidings, over the destroying billows they almost touched.