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/kˌoʊənsˈaɪdɪŋ/ Listen

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Coincide v. i. (past & past part. coincided; pres. part. coinciding)

To occupy the same place in space, as two equal triangles, when placed one on the other. "If the equator and the ecliptic had coincided, it would have rendered the annual revoluton of the earth useless."

To occur at the same time; to be contemporaneous; as, the fall of Granada coincided with the discovery of America.

To correspond exactly; to agree; to concur; as, our aims coincide. "The rules of right jugdment and of good ratiocination often coincide with each other."

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Etymology of 'Coinciding'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... said Guest, speaking hoarsely, for he felt startled at the woman's words, coinciding so exactly with horrible thoughts hidden in his own breast. "This is a very serious thing to say. What grounds have you ...

— Witness to the Deed • George Manville Fenn

... be intermingled with the homage paid to the flower-goddess. And then the three nights would denote the nights of the Floralia already past, if we suppose the hymn to have been sung on the night before the 1st of May. This seems more natural, as coinciding with the known length of the festival, than Wernsdorf's hypothesis, which makes the vigil commence before the month of Venus had opened. As regards the time of year, too, May is far more suited than April, even in Italy, for outwatching the ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXII. - June, 1843.,Vol. LIII. • Various

... she must have been mistaken, and meant to think differently in future; but with all that submission to Edmund could do, and all the help of the coinciding looks and hints which she occasionally noticed in some of the others, and which seemed to say that Julia was Mr. Crawford's choice, she knew not always what to think. She was privy, one evening, to the hopes of her aunt ...

— Persuasion • Jane Austen

... show that there is a tendency of the sun's apex to drift along the edge of the Milky Way, and this drift seems to point to a plane of motion of the sun, nearly coinciding with the plane of the ...

— Aether and Gravitation • William George Hooper

... not our reason, but something prior and superior to our reason.... He who thus sees does not properly see, does not distinguish or imagine two things. He changes, he ceases to be himself, preserves nothing of himself. Absorbed in God, he makes but one with him, like a centre of a circle coinciding with another centre."[274] "Here," writes Suso, "the spirit dies, and yet is all alive in the marvels of the Godhead ... and is lost in the stillness of the glorious dazzling obscurity and of the naked simple unity. It is in this modeless WHERE that the highest bliss is to be found."[275] ...

— The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James

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