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concurrent

/kəŋˈkʌɹənt//kəŋˈkʌɹənt/

concurrent adjective: happening at the same time; simultaneous.

concurrent: happening at the same time; simultaneous
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Adjective

concurrent (comparative more concurrent, superlative most concurrent)

  1. Happening at the same time; simultaneous.
    • concurrent echo1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “III. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for...
    • Such are the changes which science recognizes in the wire itself, as concurrent with the visual changes taking place in the eye.1865, John Tyndall, “On Radiation”, in Fragments of Science for Unscientific People, pages 171–2
  2. Belonging to the same period; contemporary.
  3. Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contributing to the same event or effect.
    • I join with these laws the personal presence of the king's son, as a concurrent cause of this reformation.1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued
    • the concurrent testimony of antiquity1738–1741, William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II.1, or II.2), London: […] Fletcher Gyles, […], →OCLC
  4. Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects.
    • the concurrent jurisdiction of courts
  5. Meeting in one point.
  6. Running alongside one another on parallel courses; moving together in space.
  7. Designed to run independently, rather than sequentially, using various mechanisms, such as threads, event loops or time-slicing.
    • Informally, a concurrent program is one that does more than one thing at a time. […] However, this simultaneity is sometimes an illusion.2000, Douglas Lea, Concurrent Programming in Java, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 19
    • Different concurrent designs enable different ways to parallelize.2012, Rob Pike, “Concurrency is not Parallelism”, in Waza Conference, San Francisco, page 21
    Antonyms:
    sequential

Noun

concurrent (plural concurrents)

  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.1667, attributed to Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. […], London: […] R. Norton for T. Garthwait, […], →OCLC
  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 neere vnto him1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C....
  3. 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.
  4. One who accompanies a sheriff's officer as witness.

concurrent meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

concurrent in Tamil

உடன்நிகழ், ஒருபுள்ளியிற்சந்திக்கின்ற, ஒரு புள்ளியில் சந்திக்கும், ஒருங்கிசையும்

concurrent in Marathi

समवर्ती

concurrent in Urdu

بہ یک وقت, ہم وقت, ہم عصر, کاروباری حریف

concurrent in Bengali

সমবর্তী
More languagesFewer languages
concurrent in Malayalam
ഒരേകാലത്തു സംഭവിക്കുന്ന, ഏകകാലികമായ, ഒന്നിച്ചുള്ള, സമ്പാതിയായ
concurrent in Gujarati
સહવર્તી, સમવર્તી
concurrent in Nepali
समवर्ती

Examples of concurrent in a sentence

  • In 1915, concurrent with the L.S.W.R. electrification, power was supplied from the Waterloo sub-station, and the old equipment held in reserve.1958 August, T. S. Lascelles, “Diamond Jubilee of the Waterloo & City Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 523:
  • More precisely, a concurrent algorithm (or concurrent program) is the description of a set of sequential state machines that cooperate through a communication medium, e. g., a shared memory.2012, Michel Raynal, Concurrent Programming, Springer Science & Business, →ISBN, page 4:
  • Many languages are dogmatic about the solutions they offer for handling concurrent problems.2018, Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols, The Rust Programming Language, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 342:

All 25 example sentences with concurrent

Antonyms of concurrent

Forms of concurrent

Adjective
comparativemore concurrent
superlativemost concurrent
Noun
pluralconcurrents

Origin of concurrent

From Middle English concurrent, from Old French concurrent, from Latin concurrēns, present active participle of concurrō (“happen at the same time”), from con- (“with”) + currō (“run”).

Words formed from concurrent

Phrases with concurrent

Questions about concurrent

What does concurrent mean?
Concurrent means happening at the same time; simultaneous.
What is concurrent in Tamil?
Concurrent in Tamil is உடன்நிகழ், ஒருபுள்ளியிற்சந்திக்கின்ற, ஒரு புள்ளியில் சந்திக்கும். See Concurrent meaning in Tamil.
How do you use concurrent in a sentence?
In 1915, concurrent with the L.S.W.R. electrification, power was supplied from the Waterloo sub-station, and the old equipment held in reserve.
What part of speech is concurrent?
Concurrent can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce concurrent?
Concurrent is pronounced /kəŋˈkʌɹənt/ (UK).

Words near concurrent in the dictionary

  1. concurrences
  2. concurrencies
  3. concurrency
  4. concurrency pattern
  5. concurrency patterns
  6. concurrent
  7. concurrent estate
  8. concurrent estates
  9. concurrent indicator
  10. concurrent indicators
  11. concurrentization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: concurrent (page history and authors); concurrent (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); concurrent (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); concurrent (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); concurrent (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); concurrent (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); concurrent (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); concurrent (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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