coincidence

tesadüf, rastlantı

Olaylar arasında planlanmadan, şans eseri ortaya çıkan şaşırtıcı bağlantı.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: A surprising connection between events that happens by chance rather than because someone planned it.

• What a coincidence!
• By coincidence, my neighbour was on the same flight.
• It was pure coincidence that they wore identical coats.

Nasıl kullanılır: by coincidence (By coincidence, we booked rooms in the same hotel.); a coincidence that… (It is a coincidence that we share a birthday.)

Eş anlamlılar: chance occurrence

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: by coincidence, strange coincidence, pure coincidence

çakışma, eşzamanlılık

Aynı yerde bulunma veya aynı anda gerçekleşme durumu.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: The state of occupying the same place or occurring at the same time.

• The two signals showed exact coincidence.
• We measured the coincidence of the lines on the screen.
• Coincidence in time does not prove that one event caused another.

Nasıl kullanılır: coincidence of A and B (The diagram shows the coincidence of the two points.)

Eş anlamlılar: overlap, simultaneity

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: exact coincidence, coincidence of something, coincidence in time