Dictionary entry

Concurrent

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Con‐cur″rent (?), a. [F. concurrent, L. concurrens, p. pr. of concurrere.] 1. Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contributing to the same event or 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.