coincidence


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
coincidence/kəʊˈɪnsɪdəns/
noun
  • 1 a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection.
  • 2 correspondence in nature or in time of occurrence.
  • 3 Physics the presence of ionizing particles or other objects in two or more detectors simultaneously, or of two or more signals simultaneously in a circuit.
– derivatives
coincidental adjective,
coincidentally adverb.
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