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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Concurrent \Con*cur"rent\, 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. --Dr. H. More 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 --Holland. 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 From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Concurrent \Con*cur"rent\, a. [F. concurrent, L. concurrens, p. pr of concurrere.] 1. Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contributing to the same event or effect; co["o]perating. I join with these laws the personal presence of the kings' son, as a concurrent cause of this reformation. --Sir J. Davies. The concurrent testimony of antiquity. --Bp. Warburton 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. --Bacon. Changes . . . concurrent with the visual changes in the eye. --Tyndall. 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. Syn: Meeting; uniting; accompanying; conjoined; associated; coincident; united. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: concurrent adj : occurring or operating at the same time; "a series of coincident events" [syn: {coincident}, {coincidental}, {coinciding}, {cooccurring}, {simultaneous}, {at the same time(p)}]
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