Concurrent
Concurrent , adjective
[French concurrent, Latin concurrens, present participle of concurrere.]
1.
Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contributing to the same event or effect; cooperating.
I join with these laws the personal presence of the kings' son, as a concurrent cause of this reformation.
The concurrent testimony of antiquity.
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.
Changes... concurrent with the visual changes in the eye.
3.
Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects; as, the concurrent jurisdiction of courts.
4.
(Geometry) Meeting in one point.
Concurrent , noun
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.
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.
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.