Word Meanings - CONCURRENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Meeting in one point. Syn. -- Meeting; uniting; accompanying; conjoined; associated; coincident; united. (more info) 1. Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contibuting to the same event of effect; coöperating. I join with
Additional info about word: CONCURRENT
Meeting in one point. Syn. -- Meeting; uniting; accompanying; conjoined; associated; coincident; united. (more info) 1. Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contibuting to the same event of effect; coöperating. 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.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONCURRENT)
- Coexistent
- Concurrent
- coetaneous
- contemporary
- coincident
- compatible
- correspondent
- correlative
- Incidental
- Casual
- occasional
- appertinent
- concomitant
- concurrent
- accidental
- fortuitous
- Parallel
- Correspondent
- congruous
- analogous
- equidistant
- Simultaneous
- Synchronous
- Symptom
- premonition
- indication
- mark
- note
- sign
- token
Related words: (words related to CONCURRENT)
- ACCIDENTALLY
In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially. - SIMULTANEOUS
Existing, happening, or done, at the same time; as, simultaneous events. -- Si`mul*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Si`mul*ta"ne*ous*ness, n. Simultaneous equations , two or more equations in which the values of the unknown quantities entering them are the - CONTEMPORARY
1. Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous. This king was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe. Strype. 2. Of the same age; coeval. A grove born with himself he sees, - FORTUITOUS
Happening independently of human will or means of foresight; resulting from unavoidable physical causes. Abbott. Syn. -- Accidental; casual; contingent; incidental. See Accidental. -- For*tu"i*tous*ly, adv. -- For*tu"i*tous*ness, n. (more info) - APPERTINENT
Belonging; appertaining. Coleridge. - OCCASIONALISM
The system of occasional causes; -- a name given to certain theories of the Cartesian school of philosophers, as to the intervention of the First Cause, by which they account for the apparent reciprocal action of the soul and the body. - SYNCHRONOUS
Happening at the same time; simultaneous. -- Syn"chro*nous*ly, adv. - CASUALISM
The doctrine that all things exist or are controlled by chance. - EQUIDISTANT
Being at an equal distance from the same point or thing. -- E`qui*dis"tant*ly, adv. Sir T. Browne. - CORRELATIVENESS
Quality of being correlative. - TOKENLESS
Without a token. - PARALLELOGRAMMIC; PARALLELOGRAMMICAL
Having the properties of a parallelogram. - SYMPTOM
Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease; as, the causes of disease often lie beyond our sight, but we learn their nature by the symptoms - COEXISTENT
Existing at the same time with another. -- n. - SYMPTOMATIC; SYMPTOMATICAL
Gr. 1. Of or pertaining to symptoms; happening in concurrence with something; being a symptom; indicating the existence of something else. Symptomatic of a shallow understanding and an unamiable temper. Macaulay. 2. According to symptoms; as, a - PARALLEL SULCUS
A sulcus parallel to, but some distance below, the horizontal limb of the fissure of Sylvius. - COMPATIBLE
Capable of existing in harmony; congruous; suitable; not repugnant; -- usually followed by with. Our poets have joined together such qualities as are by nature the most compatible. Broome. Syn. -- Consistent; suitable; agreeable; accordant. - PARALLELIZE
To render parallel. - COETANEOUS
Of the same age; beginning to exist at the same time; contemporaneous. -- Co`e*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. And all are coetaneous. Bentley. - PARALLELABLE
Capable of being paralleled, or equaled. Bp. Hall. - BETOKEN
1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen - COINDICATION
One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease. - VINDICATION
The claiming a thing as one's own; the asserting of a right or title in, or to, a thing. Burrill. (more info) 1. The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; as, the vindication of - PLANE-PARALLEL
Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass. - DISCORRESPONDENT
Incongruous. W. Montagu.