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Coincidence
coincidence
(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
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1.
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 ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
2.
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) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
1) совпадение 2) совмещение - coincidence of axes - accidental coincidence - phase coincidence ...Большой Англо-русский Русско-английский политехнический словарь
4.
1) совмещение 2) совпадение 3) согласование 4) одновременность, синхронность accidental coincidence — случайное совпадение lack of coincidence — несовпадение - double coincidence - n-fold coincidence - phase coincidence - random coincidence - spurious coincidence - triple coincidence ...Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
5.
1) совпадение 2) случайное стечение обстоятельств COINCIDENCE сущ. совпадение Syn: concurrence, conformity, congruence, correspondence ...Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
6.
1. совпадение coincidence of space —- совпадение в пространстве 2. случайное стечение обстоятельств strange coincidence —- странное стечение обстоятельств 3. полное согласие, гармония ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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8.
~ n 1 a surprising and unexpected situation in which two things that are connected happen at the same time, in the same place, or to the same people (What a coincidence! I didn't know you were going to be in Geneva too! | by coincidence) (My mother is called Anna, and by a funny coincidence my wife's mother is also called Anna. | be sheer/pure coincidence (=happen completely by chance) | not a coincidence/more than coincidence (=used when you think something did not happen by chance)) (It can't be a coincidence that four jewelry stores were robbed in one night.) 2 formal if there is a coincidence between two ideas, opinions etc, the ideas etc are the same + of (a coincidence of opinion among the board members) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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