COINCIDENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coincident mean? 

• COINCIDENT (adjective)
  The adjective COINCIDENT has 2 senses:

1. occurring or operating at the same time

2. matching point for point

  Familiarity information: COINCIDENT used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COINCIDENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Occurring or operating at the same time

Synonyms:

co-occurrent; coincident; coincidental; coinciding; concurrent; cooccurring; simultaneous

Context example:

a series of coincident events

Similar:

synchronal; synchronic; synchronous (occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase)

Derivation:

coincide (happen simultaneously)

coincide (go with, fall together)

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Matching point for point

Context example:

coincident circles

Similar:

congruent (coinciding when superimposed)

Derivation:

coincide (be the same)

coincidence (the quality of occupying the same position or area in space)

 Context examples 

A line defined by a detector and its collimator in SPECT or by 2 coincident detectors in PET.

(Line of Response, NCI Thesaurus)

You will observe, said Holmes, laying down the volume, that the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“We were also noticing a heavy burden of asthma in inner city minority children. It seemed as though vitamin D deficiency and asthma were coincident and interacting in some way.”

(Vitamin D may protect against pollution-associated asthma symptoms in obese children, National Institutes of Health)

Over a period of almost seven years, Cassini’s cameras surveyed the south polar terrain of the small moon, a unique geological basin renowned for its four prominent "tiger stripe” fractures and the geysers of tiny icy particles and water vapor first sighted there nearly 10 years ago. The result of the survey is a map of 101 geysers, each erupting from one of the tiger stripe fractures, and the discovery that individual geysers are coincident with small hot spots. These relationships pointed the way to the geysers’ origin.###!!!###

(101 Geysers on Icy Saturn Moon, NASA)

This SDTM class captures investigational, therapeutic and other treatments that are administered to the subject (with some actual or expected physiological effect) either as specified by the study protocol (e.g., exposure to study drug), coincident with the study assessment period (e.g., concomitant medications), or self-administered by the subject (such as use of alcohol, tobacco, or caffeine).

(CDISC Interventions Class, NCI Thesaurus)

When we overlaid the radio and optical images, we could see straight away that the fast radio burst pierced the halo of this coincident foreground galaxy and, for the first time, we had a direct way of investigating the otherwise invisible matter surrounding this galaxy, said coauthor Cherie Day, a PhD student at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.

(Enigmatic radio burst illuminates a galaxy’s tranquil ​halo, ESO)