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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COINCIDENCE, n.
1. The falling or meeting of two or more lines, surfaces, or bodies in the same point.
2. Concurrence; consistency; agreement; as the coincidence of two or more opinions; coincidence of evidences.
3. A meeting of events in time; concurrence; a happening at the same time; as coincidence of events.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental [syn: coincidence, happenstance]
2: the quality of occupying the same position or area in space; "he waited for the coincidence of the target and the cross hairs"
3: the temporal property of two things happening at the same time; "the interval determining the coincidence gate is adjustable" [syn: concurrence, coincidence, conjunction, co-occurrence]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1605 1. the act or condition of coinciding ; correspondence 2. the occurrence of events that happen at the same time by accident but seem to have some connection; also any of these occurrences

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a occurring or being together. b an instance of this. 2 a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection. 3 Physics the presence of ionizing particles etc. in two or more detectors simultaneously, or of two or more signals simultaneously in a circuit. Etymology: med.L coincidentia (as COINCIDE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Coincidence Co*in"ci*dence, n. [Cf. F. co["i]ncidence.] 1. The condition of occupying the same place in space; as, the coincidence of circles, surfaces, etc. --Bentley. 2. The condition or fact of happening at the same time; as, the coincidence of the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. 3. Exact correspondence in nature, character, result, circumstances, etc.; concurrence; agreement. The very concurrence and coincidence of ao many evidences . . . carries a great weight. --Sir M. Hale. Those who discourse . . . of the nature of truth . . . affirm a perfect coincidence between truth and goodness. --South.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(coincidences) A coincidence is when two or more similar or related events occur at the same time by chance and without any planning. Mr. Berry said the timing was a coincidence and that his decision was unrelated to Mr. Roman's departure... The premises of Chabert and Sons were situated by the river and, by coincidence, not too far away from where Eric Talbot had met his death. N-VAR

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Exact overlapping, identical size or duration, exact equality, precise falling together. 2. Correspondence, coherence. 3. Agreement, concurrence, consistency.

Moby Thesaurus

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