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noun
1.
the act of concurring.
2.
accordance in opinion; agreement: With the concurrence of several specialists, our doctor recommended surgery.
3.
cooperation, as of agents or causes; combined action or effort.
4.
simultaneous occurrence; coincidence: the concurrence of several unusual events.
5.
EXPANDGeometry. a point that is in three or more lines simultaneously.
Also, con·cur·ren·cy (for defs. 1–4).
Related forms
pre·con·cur·rence, noun
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Concurrence
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
Example Sentences
- Repealing term limits without the public's concurrence will undermine that credibility.
- But the concurrence unsettles the widespread and intuitive belief that violent crime will rise during times of economic distress.
- It's a rough terrain, with a lot of work and concurrence and too often ignored by society.
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