coincidence
/koʊˈɪnsɪdəns/ nom B2En français : coïncidence
- The property of being coincident, occurring at the same time or place.
- The appearance of a meaningful connection between events when there is none. · That the two writers were born and died on the same day is just a coincidence, although there are many conspiracy theories about it.· It is sheer coincidence that the cartoon resembles the local politician.
- A coincidence point.
- A fixed point of a correspondence; a point of a variety corresponding to itself under a correspondence.
Pluriel coincidences
Dans la bibliothèque
Inquiry was made, and it was ascertained that, by a strange coincidence, this carriage contained the corpse of the Marquis de Saint-Méran, and that those who had come thinking to attend one funeral would follow two.
His sisters’ uneasiness had been equally excited with my own: our coincidence of feeling was soon discovered; and, alike sensible that no time was to be lost in detaching their brother, we shortly resolved on joining him directly in London.
Considering how many hundreds of statues of the great Emperor must exist in London, it is too much to suppose such a coincidence as that a promiscuous iconoclast should chance to begin upon three specimens of the same bust.”
It may, of course, be a coincidence, but it is interesting.
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