What is meant by co-incidence?

Answer 1

Coincidence literally describes two or more events or entities occupying the same point in space or time, but colloquially means two or more events or entities possessing unexpected parallels, such as thinking about someone and then receiving an unexpected phone call from that person, when it is clear that there is no ordinary causal connection.

The index of coincidence can be used to analyze whether two events are related. A coincidence does not prove a relationship, but related events may be expected to have a higher index of coincidence. From a statistical perspective, coincidences are inevitable and often less remarkable than they may appear intuitively. The odds that two people share a birthday, for example, reaches 50% with a group of just 22 [1] (see the Birthday paradox).

Remarkable coincidences sometimes lead to claims of psychic phenomena or conspiracy theories. Some researchers (see Charles Fort and Carl Jung) have compiled thousands of accounts of coincidences and other anomalous phenomena.

In optics, coincidence is also used to refer to two or more incident beams of light that strike the same point at the same time.
Types of coincidences

The phenomenon we loosely term "coincidence" comprises many classes of events, including:

* The happy (long-lost lovers rediscover each other by accident)
* The amusing (a potato grows in a shape resembling Richard Nixon's profile)
* The mundane (neighbors share the same birthday)
* The fortunate (a hunch bet on a roulette wheel pays off)
* The eerie (a man is hit and killed by a car he'd sold ten years earlier)
* The life-saving (a last-minute change in travel plans heads off disaster)
* The tragic (sisters are killed when their vehicles collide as they travel to visit each other)

Answer 2

Two unrelated incidents producin g the same effect or result. For example: Bus A is running 5 minutes behind schedule because it has more passengers than usual and is making more stops than usual. But that is a coincidence because Bus B is also running late because it was stuck behind a car accident for 5 minutes.

Answer 3

If means there is no cause and effect relationship. If you and I were to watch the same TV show tonight, it would be a co-incidence because my watching the show did not cause you to watch it and you watching the show did not cause me to watch it. But if I pushed you and you fell down, that is NOT a co-incidence. My push caused you to fall and you would not have fallen if I had not pushed you.

Answer 4

Events happening at the same time or place by chance...

Like every time I walk into a resturaunt at lunch, my friend is there

I vacation seven hours a way and run into a neighbor from the next block

Answer 5

A coincidence occurs when unexpected parallels can be drawn from two or more events. In the popular sense it is used to describe events (or, more accurately, combinations of two or more events) which are of low probability.

Answer 6

That's GOD.....there is no such thing as "coincidence".