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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Occurring as or resulting from coincidence.
  • adjective Happening or existing at the same time.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of coincidence or a coincidence; happening at or about the same time as another event to which it is in some notable way related.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Coincident.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Occurring as or resulting from coincidence.
  • adjective Happening or existing at the same time.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective occurring or operating at the same time

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