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   concurrent

   /kənˈkʌrənt/

   adjective

   • 1. existing, happening, or done at the same time: "there are three concurrent art fairs around the city" Similar simultaneouscoincidentcoincidingcontemporaneoussynchronousparallelside by sidecoexistingcoexistent
   • ▪ (of two or more prison sentences) to be served at the same time: "he received concurrent sentences of two years' imprisonment for each of his two convictions"
   • ▪ (of three or more lines) meeting at or tending towards one point. Similar convergentconvergingmeetingjoiningunitingintersecting
   • 2. agreeing or consistent.

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Latin concurrent- ‘running together, meeting’, from the verb concurrere (see concur).

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