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Coinage


COINAGE,

COINCIDE, verb intransitive

1. To fall or to meet in the same point, as two lines, or bodies; followed by with.

If the equator and the ecliptic had coincided, it would have rendered the annual revolution of the earth useless.

2. To concur; to be consistent with; to agree.

The rules of right judgment and of good ratiocination often coincide with each other.

The judges did not coincide in opinion.