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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Coinciding" Quotes from Famous Books

... notes is attained when the respective numbers of pulsations per second admit a low common-divisor. For instance, the note produced by 60 vibrations per second will chord with one produced by 120—each node of the former coinciding with each alternate node of the latter. 60 and 90 will also chord; 60 and 70 will produce discord; 60 and 65, worse discord. And so on. The science of musical composition lies in the management of sound-pulsation, and is governed by certain rigid mathematical ...

— Such is Life • Joseph Furphy

... point will be made probable. Either the Clyde objects are old, or the modern maker knew much more of archaeology than many of his critics and used his knowledge to direct his manufacture of spurious things; or he kept coinciding accidentally with genuine relics of which he ...

— The Clyde Mystery - a Study in Forgeries and Folklore • Andrew Lang

... passageway, Hepzibah could discern his features, as if a light fell on them alone. Their vivid and wild expression seemed likewise sufficient to illuminate them; it was an expression of scorn and mockery, coinciding with the emotions indicated by his gesture. As Clifford stood on the threshold, partly turning back, he pointed his finger within the parlor, and shook it slowly as though he would have summoned, ...

— The House of the Seven Gables • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... struggle for existence and natural selection, which approaches the organisms purely from without like individual variability, must as a whole appear a necessity, but in each single case in the concrete mixture of coinciding circumstances, would seem a work of chance for the individual which is ...

— The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality • Rudolf Schmid

... one particle, and before it reached the other?" If this something is the potential energy of the two particles, as in Neumann's theory, how are we to conceive this energy as existing in a point of space coinciding neither with the one particle nor with the other? In fact, whenever energy is transmitted from one body to another in time, there must be a medium or substance in which the energy exists after it leaves one body, and before it reaches the other, for energy, as Torricelli remarked, "is a quintessence ...

— The World's Greatest Books - Volume 15 - Science • Various