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  1. 1. a. Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contributing to the same event or effect; cooperating. Source: opted
  2. 2. a. Conjoined; associate; concomitant; existing or happening at the same time. Source: opted
  3. 3. a. Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects; as, the concurrent jurisdiction of courts. Source: opted
  4. 4. a. Meeting in one point. Source: opted
  5. 5. n. One who, or that which, concurs; a joint or contributory cause. Source: opted
  6. 6. n. One pursuing the same course, or seeking the same objects; hence, a rival; an opponent. Source: opted
  7. 7. n. One of the supernumerary days of the year over fifty-two complete weeks; -- so called because they concur with the solar cycle, the course of which they follow. Source: opted
  8. 8. adj. occurring or operating at the same time Source: wordnet
  9. 9. 1. Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contibuting to the same event of effect; coöperating. I join with these laws the personal presence of the kings' son, as a concurrent cause of this reformation. Sir J. Davies. The concurrent testimony of antiquity. Bp. Warburton. 2. Conjoined; associate; concomitant; existing or happening at the same time. There is no difference the concurrent echo and the iterant but the quickness or slowness of the return. Bacon. Changes . . . concurrent with the visual changes in the eye. Tyndall. 3. Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects; as, the concurrent jurisdiction of courts. 4. (Geom.) Meeting in one point. Syn. -- Meeting; uniting; accompanying; conjoined; associated; coincident; united. 1. One who, or that which, concurs; a joint or contributory cause. To all affairs of importance there are three necessary concurrents . . . time, industry, and faculties. Dr. H. More. 2. One pursuing the same course, or seeking the same objects; hence, a rival; an opponent. Menander . . . had no concurrent in his time that came near unto him. Holland. 3. (Chron.) One of the supernumerary days of the year over fifty-two complete weeks; -- so called because they concur with the solar cycle, the course of which they follow. Source: webster
  10. 10. j:100 s occurring or operating at the same time Source: ecdict

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