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Noun coincidence has 3 senses

coincidence, happenstance - an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental
--₁ is a kind of accident, fortuity, chance event
coincidence - the quality of occupying the same position or area in space; "he waited for the coincidence of the target and the cross hairs"
--₂ is a kind of position, spatial relation
concurrence, coincidence, conjunction, co-occurrence - the temporal property of two things happening at the same time; "the interval determining the coincidence gate is adjustable"
--₃ is a kind of simultaneity, simultaneousness
--₃ has particulars:
concomitance; overlap; contemporaneity, contemporaneousness; unison

Derived form: verb coincide₂