COINCIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coincide mean? 

• COINCIDE (verb)
  The verb COINCIDE has 3 senses:

1. go with, fall together

2. happen simultaneously

3. be the same

  Familiarity information: COINCIDE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COINCIDE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they coincide    ... he / she / it coincides   
Past simple: coincided   
Past participle: coincided   
-ing form: coinciding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Go with, fall together

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

co-occur; coincide; cooccur

Hypernyms (to "coincide" is one way to...):

coexist; cohabit (exist together)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "coincide"):

overlap (coincide partially or wholly)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

coincident (occurring or operating at the same time)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Happen simultaneously

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

coincide; concur

Context example:

The two events coincided

Hypernyms (to "coincide" is one way to...):

come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place (come to pass)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

coincidence (the temporal property of two things happening at the same time)

coincident (occurring or operating at the same time)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Be the same

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

our views on this matter coincided

Hypernyms (to "coincide" is one way to...):

agree; check; correspond; fit; gibe; jibe; match; tally (be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

coincident (matching point for point)

 Context examples 

The change in the ivory trade coincides with the flourishing of the Norse settlements on Greenland.

(Lost Norse of Greenland fuelled the medieval ivory trade, ancient walrus DNA suggests, University of Cambridge)

Spikes in AFM cases, primarily in children, have coincided in time and location with outbreaks of EV-D68 and a related enterovirus, EV-A71.

(Enterovirus antibodies detected in acute flaccid myelitis patients, National Institutes of Health)

Women whose first seven weeks of pregnancy coincided with extreme heatwaves had an 11 percent increase in risk before 34 weeks, and a four percent increased risk at 37 to 38 weeks.

(Extreme temperatures could increase preterm birth risk, NIH)

I had hoped that our sentiments coincided in every particular, but I must so far differ from you as to think our two youngest daughters uncommonly foolish.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

When the researchers compared the geysers’ locations with low-resolution maps of thermal emission, it became apparent the greatest geyser activity coincided with the greatest thermal radiation.

(101 Geysers on Icy Saturn Moon, NASA)

Chi-square test is a statistical test for testing the null hypothesis that the distribution of a discrete random variable coincides with a given distribution.

(Chi-Square Test, NCI Thesaurus)

The phenomenon of coinciding partially or wholly; extending over and covering a part of.

(Overlap, NCI Thesaurus)

An exact duplicate; coinciding in characteristics; similar or consistent.

(Match, NCI Thesaurus)

The binding of b-arrestins to agonist-occupied GPCRs coincides with the recruitment of Src family tyrosine kinases, including c-Src, Hck and c-Fgr (Src-TK), to the receptor-b-arrestin complex.

(GPCR Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Posttranslational modification of Cortactin coincides with redistribution to cell-matrix contact sites.

(Cortactin, NCI Thesaurus)