coincide
verbUS /ˌkoʊɪnˈsaɪd/
Etymology From French coïncider, from Medieval Latin coincidere, from con- + incidere, from in- (“into, to”) + cadere (“to fall, fall down, drop”).
1
To occupy exactly the same space.
- The two squares coincide nicely.
2
To occur at the same time.
- The conference will coincide with his vacation.
- The last train ran on December 31, 1932, almost unnoticed, for it coincided with the running of the last steam passenger train down the main line from London to Brighton, a much more momentous event.1952 December, R. C. Riley, “By Rail to Kemp Town”, in Railway Magazine, page 835:
3
To correspond, concur, or agree.
- Our ideas coincide, except in certain areas.
- Derived terms
- coincidence, coincident, coincider, coincidingly, noncoinciding
- Related terms
- simultaneous