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Concurrent


CONCURRENT, adjective

1. Meeting; uniting; accompanying; acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act; contributing to the same event or effect; operating with.

I join with these laws the personal presence of the Kings son, as a concurrent cause of this reformation.

All combined, your beauty, and my impotence of mind, and his concurrent flame, that blew my fire.

2. Conjoined; associate; concomitant.

There is no difference between the concurrent echo and the iterant, but the quickness or slowness of the return.

3. Joint and equal; existing together and operating on the same objects. The courts of the United States, and those of the States have, in some cases, concurrent jurisdiction.

CONCURRENT, noun That which concurs; joint or contributory cause.

To all affairs of importance there are three necessary concurrents-time, industry and faculties.