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coincidence
noun
1 coincidence
An event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental.
synonym: happenstance.
Roget 13:
identity,
sameness;
coincidence,
coalescence;
convertibility;
equality
etc.
27;
selfness†,
self,
oneself;
identification.
monotony,
tautology
etc.
(repetition)
104.
facsimile
etc.
(copy)
21;
homoousia: alter ego
etc.
(similar)
17;
ipsissima verba [Lat.]
etc.
(exactness)
494;
same;
self,
very,
one and the same;
very thing,
actual thing;
real McCoy;
no other;
one and only;
in the flesh.
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Roget 199:
contiguity,
contact,
proximity,
apposition,
abuttal†,
juxtaposition;
abutment,
osculation;
meeting,
appulse†,
rencontre†,
rencounter†,
syzygy [Astr.],
coincidence,
coexistence;
adhesion
etc.
46;
touching
etc.
v..
(touch)
379.
borderland;
frontier
etc.
(limit)
233;
tangent;
abutter.
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Dutch: samenloop, coïncidentie, geval, toeval, toevalligheid
Polish: zbieg okoliczności, splot wydarzeń
2 coincidence
The quality of occupying the same position or area in space.
3 coincidence
The temporal property of two things happening at the same time:
— The interval determining the coincidence gate is adjustable.
synonyms: co-occurrence, concurrence, conjunction.
Roget 178:
concurrence,
cooperation,
coagency†;
union;
agreement
etc.
23;
consilience†;
consent,
coincidence
etc.
(assent)
488;
alliance;
concert,
additivity,
synergy
etc.
709;
partnership
etc.
712.
common cause.
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Roget 120:
synchronism;
coexistence,
coincidence;
simultaneousness,
simultaneity
etc.
adj.;
concurrence,
concomitance,
unity of time,
interim.
[Having equal times]
isochronism†.
contemporary,
coetanian†.
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Moby thesaurus: accident, accompaniment, accord, accordance, affinity, agreement, alliance, assent, association, cahoots, chance, chorus, co-occurrence, co-working, coaction, coequality, coetaneity, coetaneousness, coevality, coevalneity, coevalness, coexistence, coextension, coherence, collaboration, collectivity, collusion, combination, combined effort, compatibility, concert, concerted action, concomitance, concomitancy, concord, concordance, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conformance, conformation, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruency, congruity, conjunction, consilience, consistency, consonance, consort, conspiracy, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, cooperation, correspondence, equality, equivalence, fluke, fortuitousness, fortuity, happenstance, harmony, homogeneity, homoousia, identity, indistinguishability, intersection, isochronism, junction, luck, matching, no difference, oneness, overlap, parallelism, parasitism, peace, rapport, sameness, saprophytism, self-consistency, self-identity, selfhood, selfness, selfsameness, simultaneity, symbiosis, symmetry, sync, synchronism, synchronization, synergy, synonymity, synonymousness, synonymy, tally, timing, togetherness, uniformity, union, unison, unisonance, united action, unity, withness ... show more.
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