Coincidence | Mean of coincidence in English Dictionary

/koʊˈɪnsədəns/

• Noun
• a situation in which events happen at the same time in a way that is not planned or expected
1. It was mere/pure/sheer coincidence that brought them together so far from Chicago.
2. By coincidence, every man in the room was named Fred.
3. Our meeting happened by coincidence. [=by chance]
4. “I'm going to Boston this weekend.” “What a coincidence! I am too.”
5. It was no coincidence that he quit his job at the bank a day after the robbery.
6. a series of strange coincidences
7. By a fortunate/happy coincidence, we arrived at the theater at the same time.
• the occurrence of two or more things at the same time
1. Scientists have no explanation for the coincidence of these phenomena.
• the state of two or more things being the same
1. There is a coincidence of interests between the companies. [=the companies share the same interests]