simultaneously

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 scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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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

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

He simultaneously rebuffs and courts interpretation.

In a sense, these creative folks were simultaneously able to live in a dream

state while concentrating on the outside world.

Unfortunately, running more than a handful of these widgets simultaneously

proves problematic.

Equally important, they could be packed into arrays capable of monitoring

thousands of stars simultaneously.

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"Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can step out of a railway station—the Gare D'Orsay—and see, simultaneously, the chief enchantments: the Seine with its bridges and bookstalls, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, the beginning of the Champs Elysees—nearly everything except the Luxembourg Gardens and the Palais Royal. But what other city offers as much as you leave a train?"

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