simultaneous

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)

—*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 instantaneous from Latin simul at the same time, together]

simul'taneously

—*adv*

simul'taneousness

—n

simultaneity

—n

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simultaneous

1650s, from L.L. simultaneus, from L. simul "at the same time" (see similar) + -taneous, abstracted from spontaneous, etc. Related: Simultaneously.

Example sentences

When it comes to the health of the country and its culture, the highest highs

and the lowest lows are simultaneous and adjacent.

Globalisation is the more or less simultaneous marketing and sale of identical

goods and services around the world.

Examine any collection of simultaneous translations of a substantial text.

But it is difficult to obtain this ray pure, on account of the simultaneous

presence of other stars whose rays mingle with it.

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"There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent."

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