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/kˌoʊɪnsˈaɪd/ Listen

verb

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Coincide" Quotes from Famous Books

... count, I thank you!" cried Marie Antoinette, rising from her seat. "Now, I doubt no more about the future, for my own thoughts coincide with those of our greatest statesmen! I, too, am convinced the court ought to leave Paris—that it must withdraw, in order to escape new humiliations, and that it ought to return only in the splendor of its power, and with ...

— Marie Antoinette And Her Son • Louise Muhlbach

... therefore no punishment on earth can be inflicted which leaves greater disgrace upon the character of the sufferer, where public opinion coincides with and supports the sentence of the Court: but, where public opinion does not coincide with the sentence, where, on the contrary, the sufferer is caressed and applauded by the public, it inflicts no disgrace whatever, but may rather be considered an honour. It inflicted no disgrace upon Daniel Isaac Eaton, because ...

— Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. Volume 3 • Henry Hunt

... governed by the same rules and laws that govern the Centripetal Force, if it is to work in harmony with the same. It must be universal in its character, having a proportion of forces equal to the product of the masses of the two bodies which are concerned, and its path must coincide with the path of gravitational attraction, that is, in the straight line which joins the centres of gravity of the two bodies. Further, and what is perhaps the most important of all, it must act as a repelling or repulsive force which shall be in the same proportion in ...

— Aether and Gravitation • William George Hooper

... of the third resolution is to make the new universal day coincide with the civil day rather than with the astronomical day. In the Conference at Rome the universal day was made to coincide with the astronomical day. It seems to me that the inconvenience of that ...

— International Conference Held at Washington for the Purpose of Fixing a Prime Meridian and a Universal Day. October, 1884. • Various

... which Roggewein saw under the eleventh parallel, and which he named Tienhoven and Groningue. But when we arrived there everything led us to believe that we were in the southern land of Espiritu Santo. Every appearance seemed to coincide with Quiros's narrative, and the discoveries we made every day encouraged us in our search. It is singular that precisely in the same latitude and longitude as that which Quiros gives to his St. Philip and St. James' Bays, upon a shore which at first sight appeared like a continent, we found ...

— Celebrated Travels and Travellers - Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century • Jules Verne

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