Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Occupying the same area in space or happening at the same time: synonym: contemporary.
- adjective Being in agreement or harmony.
- adjective Matching point for point; coinciding.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Occupying the same place in space, or the same position in a scale or series; coinciding.
- Happening at the same time; coexistent: with with.
- Concurrent; exactly corresponding; in all respects conformable; consistent.
- noun A concurrence; a coincidence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare One of two or more coincident events; a coincidence.
- adjective Having coincidence; occupying the same place; contemporaneous; concurrent; -- followed by
with .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of two events Occurring at the same
time . - adjective of two objects Being in the same
location . - adjective Being in
accordance , matching.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective matching point for point
- adjective occurring or operating at the same time
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This fourth estate, in the recesses of whose heart there lies no germ of a new and further development of privilege, is therefore a term coincident with the human race.
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Are we not cultivating the belief that we are fit and capable for any military strain coincident with invasion?
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Contrary to popular belief, there's no Japanese term coincident with the word Wii -
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I don't find this solution "coincident" - it seems an apt explanation if the earliest version of a manuscript we have seems to already reflect some sort of mutilation.
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But the executive officers are appointed by the mayor for terms coincident with his own, that is for two years.
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I am sure this will now be referred to as a coincident!
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I am sure this will now be referred to as a coincident!
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What is happening right now based on current data. (referred to as a coincident indicator) Economic indicators are designed to try and give a picture of
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What is happening right now based on current data. (referred to as a coincident indicator) Economic indicators are designed to try and give a picture of
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Bright Future does call for a temporary increase in Natural Gas production in the short term coincident with retiring coal burning plants which account for 22\% of the regions power but 87\% of the grids carbon emissions.
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