Definition of Co-occurrence

1. Noun. An event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another.

Exact synonyms: Accompaniment, Attendant, Concomitant
Generic synonyms: Happening, Natural Event, Occurrence, Occurrent
Specialized synonyms: Associate, Background
Derivative terms: Accompany, Attendant, Co-occurrent, Cooccur

2. Noun. The temporal property of two things happening at the same time. "The interval determining the coincidence gate is adjustable"

Definition of Co-occurrence

1. Noun. The fact of a thing occurring simultaneously with something else; correlation. ¹

2. Noun. An instance of a thing occurring simultaneously with something else; co-incidence. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Co-occurrence

co-located
co-locates
co-locating
co-location
co-locations
co-meddled
co-mingle
co-mingles
co-mother-in-law
co-mothers
co-mothers-in-law
co-occur
co-occur with
co-occurred
co-occurrence (current term)
co-occurrences
co-occurring
co-occurs
co-op
co-operate
co-operated
co-operates
co-operating
co-operation
co-operative
co-operatively
co-opetition
co-ops
co-opt

Literary usage of Co-occurrence

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Air Quality Criteria for Oxides of Nitrogenby Dennis J. Kotchmar by Dennis J. Kotchmar (1996)
"The report also indicated that the frequency of pollutant co-occurrence used in most ... The infrequent co-occurrence is not surprising because most sites ..."

2. Text Retrieval Conference, 4th edited by D. K. Harman (1998)
"The word co-occurrence extracted from all the documents is used for query ... The query terms are expanded by the co-occurrence data base and thesaurus. ..."

3. South African Social Attitudes: Changing Times, Diverse Voices by Stephen P. Rule, Udesh Pillay, Benjamin Roberts (2007)
"A recent review reports 42 studies that found a co-occurrence of spousal and ... In representative community samples, the base rate of co-occurrence was ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Co-occurrence on Dictionary.com!Search for Co-occurrence on Thesaurus.com!Search for Co-occurrence on Google!Search for Co-occurrence on Wikipedia!

Search