Coincident Definition

kō-ĭnsĭ-dənt
adjective
Occurring at the same time.
Webster's New World
Taking up the same position in space at the same time.
Webster's New World
In agreement; similar or identical.
Where desire and need are coincident.
Webster's New World
Matching point for point; coinciding.
Coincident circles.
American Heritage
The definition of coincident is something that happens at the same time, exists in the same place or is the same as something else.
An example of coincident is two people dropping a glass at the same time in a restaurant.
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Origin of Coincident

  • From French coïncident.

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Coincident Sentence Examples

  • It was coincident with the building-out of the feudal system.

  • What a sorrowful act must that be--the covering up of wells! coincident with the opening of wells of tears.

  • We will now consider in detail the important case in which uniform plane waves are resolved at a surface coincident with a wave-front (OQ).

  • The incident waves are thus plane, and are limited to a plane aperture coincident with a wave-front.

  • The rise of speculative philosophy in Greece was coincident with the beginning of prose composition, and many of the earliest philosophers wrote in the prose of the Ionic dialect; others, however, and especially the writers of the Greek colonies in Italy and Sicily, expounded their systems in continuous poems composed in the epic hexameter.

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