noun
- An event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental.
- synonyms: happenstance
- The quality of occupying the same position or area in space.
- usage: "he waited for the coincidence of the target and the cross hairs"
- The temporal property of two things happening at the same time.
- usage: "the interval determining the coincidence gate is adjustable"
- synonyms: concurrence, conjunction, co-occurrence
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