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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Contemporaneous \Con*tem`po*ra"ne*ous\, a. [L. contemporaneus; con- + tempus time. See {Temporal}, and cf {Contemporaneous}.] Living, existing, or occurring at the same time; contemporary. The great age of Jewish philosophy, that of Aben Esra, Maimonides, and Kimchi had been contemporaneous with the later Spanish school of Arabic philosophy. --Milman -- {Con*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ness}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: contemporaneous adj 1: occurring in the same period of time; "a rise in interest rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in inflation"; "the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart" [syn: {contemporary}] 2: of the same period [syn: {coetaneous}, {coeval}]
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