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adjective

Concurrent adj.

1.

Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contributing to the same event or effect; cooperating. "I join with these laws the personal presence of the kings' son, as a concurrent cause of this reformation." "The concurrent testimony of antiquity."

2.

Conjoined; associate; concomitant; existing or happening at the same time. "There is no difference the concurrent echo and the iterant but the quickness or slowness of the return." "Changes... concurrent with the visual changes in the eye."

3.

Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects; as, the concurrent jurisdiction of courts.

4.

(Geom.) Meeting in one point.

Synonyms: Meeting; uniting; accompanying; conjoined; associated; coincident; united.

noun

Concurrent n.

1.

One who, or that which, concurs; a joint or contributory cause. "To all affairs of importance there are three necessary concurrents... time, industry, and faculties."

2.

One pursuing the same course, or seeking the same objects; hence, a rival; an opponent. "Menander... had no concurrent in his time that came near unto him."

3.

(Chron.) One of the supernumerary days of the year over fifty-two complete weeks; so called because they concur with the solar cycle, the course of which they follow.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Concurrent" Quotes from Famous Books

... would the traffic in opium be tolerated, and in the notes from the British and American governments the pledge given at The Hague is brought directly to the attention of those in authority at Peking. The two Western governments named would hardly have taken such concurrent action without a significant meaning, and a meaning which Peking will not be permitted to treat with indifference and impunity. It is certainly not the policy of either British or American governments to interfere in the domestic affairs of China, ...

— Peking Dust • Ellen N. La Motte

... with it. A multiplicity of other slight circumstances, and the positive assertion of the chamber-maid that the window had been opened, and was but imperfectly closed again, came in support of the conclusion, which was to my mind satisfactorily settled by the concurrent evidence of the medical men, to the effect that the unhappy man could not have been many hours dead when the body ...

— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. • Various

... portion of these I There is, moreover, a plain allusion to the close of Joel iii. 5, which the LXX. translate [Greek: ous Kurios proskekletai]. This allusion contains, at the same time, a proof of the concurrent reference to the Gentiles, which is not in express words contained in the prophecy, provided we do not put an arbitrary interpretation upon [Hebrew: bwr]. Attention is thereby directed [Pg 349] to the ...

— Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, v. 1 • Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

... Justice or Corte Suprema de Justicia (thirteen members serve concurrent five-year terms and elect a president of the Court each year from among their number; the president of the Supreme Court of Justice also supervises trial judges around the country, who are named to five-year terms); Constitutional Court or Corte de ...

— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government

... town, allured by curiosity, came flocking round, to behold the foreign army; and the peaceful confidence with which they advanced, resembled a friendly salutation, more than a hostile reception. From the concurrent reports of these people, the Saxons learned that the town had been deserted by the troops, and that the government had fled to Budweiss. This unexpected and inexplicable absence of resistance excited Arnheim's distrust the more, as the ...

— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller

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