Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To occupy the same relative position or the same area in space.
- intransitive verb To happen at the same time or during the same period.
- intransitive verb To correspond exactly; be identical. synonym: correspond.
- intransitive verb To agree exactly, as in opinion; concur.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To occupy the same place in space, the same point or period in time, or the same position in a scale or series: as, a temperature of 25° on the centigrade scale coincides with one of 77° on the scale of Fahrenheit; the rise of the church coincides with the decline of the Roman empire.
- To concur; agree; correspond exactly: as, the judges did not coincide in opinion; that did not coincide with my views.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To occupy the same place in space, as two equal triangles, when placed one on the other.
- intransitive verb To occur at the same time; to be contemporaneous.
- intransitive verb To correspond exactly; to agree; to concur.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To occupy exactly the same
space . - verb To occur at the same time.
- verb To
correspond ,concur , oragree .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb happen simultaneously
- verb go with, fall together
- verb be the same
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The petition requests the designation coincide with land in Hendry, Collier and Lee counties that the U.S.
unknown title 2009
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Its determinations regarding Flight 77 and the alleged phone calls coincide with those of Griffin-Balsamo, Meyssan and Ratier but extend beyond that.
Signs of the Times 2008
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Its determinations regarding Flight 77 and the alleged phone calls coincide with those of Griffin-Balsamo, Meyssan and Ratier but extend beyond that.
Signs of the Times 2008
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It will be interesting to see if their jail terms coincide with tourist season.
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Despite (or, indeed, due to) the discrepancy between implicational formulas and combinatory terms, classes of implicational formulas that can be assigned to certain sets of combinatory terms coincide with some important logics.
Combinatory Logic Bimbó, Katalin 2008
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Moreover, in these logics the classes of algebras obtained by the two ways of generalizing the Lindenbaum-Tarski method coincide, that is,
Propositional Consequence Relations and Algebraic Logic Jansana, Ramon 2006
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And if the two terms coincide in extension, the predicate must either coincide also in intension with the subject or not.
Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock
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All lengths and angles of one have their exact duplicate in the other, yet the two cannot be made to coincide, that is, be fitted the one into the other so that they shall both stand as one pyramid.
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SHADOW of this equatorial line to be thrown on the vast concave of the Sky, this shadow would in astronomical parlance coincide with the
Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning Edward Carpenter 1886
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The above is logically equivalent to R 'x x' whenever X and X 'coincide, which is also equivalent to R x x' whenever the quotients are equal, which in turn is when we care about the meaning of equality for classes.
Planet Haskell Conor 2010
bilby commented on the word coincide
"What you do when it's raining."
- anon.
September 9, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word coincide
Destroying pennies.
September 14, 2008
mollusque commented on the word coincide
Better than destroying specie(s)!
September 14, 2008
asativum commented on the word coincide
Your comment is specieous, moll.
September 14, 2008
mollusque commented on the word coincide
And another counterexample for Dr. Goodword, who would have us spell it
September 14, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word coincide
Ha!
September 14, 2008