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co-occurrence

Definitions of co-occurrence
  1. noun
    an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another
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    types:
    associate
    any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another
    background
    relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation
    type of:
    happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent
    an event that happens
  2. noun
    the temporal property of two things happening at the same time
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    types:
    concomitance
    occurrence or existence together or in connection with one another
    overlap
    the property of partial coincidence in time
    contemporaneity, contemporaneousness
    the quality of belonging to the same period of time
    unison
    the act of occurring together or simultaneously
    type of:
    simultaneity, simultaneousness
    happening or existing or done at the same time
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