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con⋅cur⋅rent

  [kuhn-kur-uhnt, -kuhr-]
Use concurrently in a Sentence
–adjective
1. occurring or existing simultaneously or side by side: concurrent attacks by land, sea, and air.
2. acting in conjunction; cooperating: the concurrent efforts of several legislators to pass the new law.
3. having equal authority or jurisdiction: two concurrent courts of law.
4. accordant or agreeing: concurrent testimony by three witnesses.
5. tending to or intersecting at the same point: four concurrent lines.
–noun
6. something joint or contributory.
7. Archaic. a rival or competitor.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME (< MF) < L concurrent- (s. of concurrēns, prp. of concurrere to run together; see concur ); see con-, current

Related forms:
con⋅cur⋅rent⋅ly, adverb
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con·cur·rent   (kən-kûr'ənt, -kŭr'-)   
adj.  
  1. Happening at the same time as something else. See Synonyms at contemporary.
  2. Operating or acting in conjunction with another.
  3. Meeting or tending to meet at the same point; convergent.
  4. Being in accordance; harmonious.

[Middle English, from Latin concurrēns, concurrent-, present participle of concurrere, to coincide; see concur.]
con·cur'rent n., con·cur'rent·ly adv.
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Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Concurrently

Con*cur"rent*ly\, adv. With concurrence; unitedly.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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