Simultaneity
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məlˈteɪ adjective
existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
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Simultaneity
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| 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. |
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simultaneous (ˌsɪməlˈteɪnɪəs, US ˌsaɪməlˈteɪnɪəs) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
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| 1. | occurring, existing, or operating at the same time; concurrent |
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| 2. | chess Sometimes shortened to: simul a display in which one player plays a number of opponents at once, walking from board to board |
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| simul'taneously | |
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| simul'taneousness | |
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| simultaneity | |
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| simultaneous (ˌsɪməlˈteɪnɪəs, US ˌsaɪməlˈteɪnɪəs) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | occurring, existing, or operating at the same time; concurrent |
| —n | |
| 2. | chess Sometimes shortened to: simul a display in which one player plays a number of opponents at once, walking from board to board |
| [C17: formed on the model of | |
| simul'taneously | |
| —adv | |
| simul'taneousness | |
| —n | |
| simultaneity | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
simultaneous
1650s, from L.L. simultaneus, from L. simul "at the same time" (see similar) + -taneous, abstracted from spontaneous, etc. Related: Simultaneously.
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Example sentences
Since the two photons are traveling in the same reference frame, all of their events share simultaneity.
The simultaneity of these challenges poses an additional challenge for planning and policy-making in this dynamic system.
People found out about the tragedy in near simultaneity, and together watched the story evolve on television.
Also, the hypothesis of simultaneity is tested to determine if the two decisions are actually endogenous to each other.
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