Both Uses
coincidence
in
1984, by Orwell
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- Perhaps after all she was not really following him about, perhaps it was coincidence that she had sat so close to him two days running.†
p. 62.5 *coincidence = a situation where things happened at the same time by chance even though it was unlikely
- It was too great a coincidence.†
p. 101.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(coincidence) a situation where two things happened at the same time or in the same way by chance even though it was unlikely
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely coincidence can refer to things coinciding (occurring or operating at the same place or time). For example:
- the coincidence of a target and cross hairs
- the coincidence of entangled particles in quantum physics