COINCIDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coinciding mean? 

• COINCIDING (adjective)
  The adjective COINCIDING has 1 sense:

1. occurring or operating at the same time

  Familiarity information: COINCIDING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COINCIDING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Occurring or operating at the same time

Synonyms:

co-occurrent; coincident; coincidental; coinciding; concurrent; cooccurring; simultaneous

Context example:

a series of coincident events

Similar:

synchronal; synchronic; synchronous (occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase)

 Context examples 

The phenomenon of coinciding partially or wholly; extending over and covering a part of.

(Overlap, NCI Thesaurus)

An exact duplicate; coinciding in characteristics; similar or consistent.

(Match, NCI Thesaurus)

Exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different; being the exact same one; coinciding exactly when superimposed; having properties with uniform values along all axes.

(Identical, NCI Thesaurus)

Fanny supposed she must have been mistaken, and meant to think differently in future; but with all that submission to Edmund could do, and all the help of the coinciding looks and hints which she occasionally noticed in some of the others, and which seemed to say that Julia was Mr. Crawford's choice, she knew not always what to think.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)