coincidence

coincidence
noun
  1. a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection
    巧合,巧事
    it was a coincidence that she was wearing a jersey exactly like Laura's.
    她碰巧穿着一件和劳拉一模一样的运动衫。
    [mass noun]they met by coincidence.
    他们是偶然遇见的。
  2. [mass noun]correspondence in nature or in time of occurrence
    符合;同时发生
    the coincidence of interest between the mining companies and certain politicians.
    这些矿业公司和某些政客之间的利益一致。
  3. (Physics)the presence of ionizing particles or other objects in two or more detectors simultaneously, or of two or more signals simultaneously in a circuit
    (物理)符合
语源
  1. early 17th cent. (in the sense 'occupation of the same space'): from medieval Latin coincidentia, from coincidere 'coincide, agree' (see coincide). Sense 3 dates from the 1930s
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