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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |