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Definition of Coincide

1. Verb. Go with, fall together.

2. Verb. Happen simultaneously. "The two events coincided"

3. Verb. Be the same. "Our views on this matter coincided"

Definition of Coincide

1. v. i. To occupy the same place in space, as two equal triangles, when placed one on the other.

Definition of Coincide

1. Verb. To occupy exactly the same space. ¹

2. Verb. To occur at the same time. ¹

3. Verb. To correspond, concur, or agree. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Coincide

1. to be in the same place [v -CIDED, -CIDING, -CIDES]

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Literary usage of Coincide

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Plane and Spherical Trigonometry: And Surveying by George Albert Wentworth (1887)
"To lay off an angle with the protractor, place the centre over the vertex of the angle, and make the diameter coincide with the given side of the angle. ..."

2. On Intelligence by Hippolyte Adolphe Taine, T. D. Haye (1889)
"For, let us assume that at some point or other it ceases so to coincide, and that, ... Since the first line is straight, this portion will coincide on both ..."

3. Mathematical Crystallography and the Theory of Groups of Movements by Harold Hilton (1903)
"Now consider an operation Rl of F which brings <f,. to coincide with <p'/•; ... Lj brings <f,e to coincide with </y and M brings <fy to coincide with 0'y). ..."

4. Transactions by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1804)
"THE CASE OF THREE INTERSECTING DOUBLE LINES, TWO OF WHICH coincide. In the discussion of the preceding section we have treated the three double lines as ..."

5. Biennial report by Minnesota Tax Commission, Washington (State). Board of State Land Commissioners, Washington (State), Board of State Land Commissioners (1912)
"LIST OF CITIES WHOSE BOUNDARIES coincide WITH THE CORRESPONDING SCHOOL DISTRICT Anoka ... coincide ..."

6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Political interests predominate; but such interests, which come and go with ministries, do not coincide with those of the Evangelical Church, ..."

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