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co-occurrence en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The fact of a thing occurring simultaneously with something else; correlation.
2. (countable) 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

Deriveds

co-occurrence network

Relateds

coinstantiation · intersection · overlap

Translations (1)

pt coocorrência (the fact of a thing occurring simultaneously with something else)