COINCIDENCE


Meaning of COINCIDENCE in English

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.

[ med.L coincidentia (as COINCIDE) ]

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