cooccurrence
cooccurrence is the alternative form of co-occurrence.
Meaning of co-occurrence
Noun
co-occurrence (countable and uncountable, plural co-occurrences)
- The fact of a thing occurring simultaneously with something else; correlation.
- An instance of a thing occurring simultaneously with something else; coexistence or coincidence.
- Roughly speaking, people tend to choose the most probable interpretation, according to any factor that they might consider, such as the likelihood of the meaning of each in the world, or the frequency of co-occurrences of subsequences of words, or several other factors.2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Introduction” (chapter 1), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 13
Forms of cooccurrence
| plural | cooccurrences |
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Origin of cooccurrence
From co- + occurrence.
Questions about cooccurrence
- What is cooccurrence the alternative form of?
- Cooccurrence is the alternative form of co-occurrence.
Words near cooccurrence in the dictionary
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