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CONCURRENCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Acting together, as agents or circumstances or events
Synonyms:
concurrence; concurrency
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("concurrence" is a kind of...):
cooperation (joint operation or action)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The temporal property of two things happening at the same time
Example:
the interval determining the coincidence gate is adjustable
Synonyms:
co-occurrence; coincidence; concurrence; conjunction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("concurrence" is a kind of...):
simultaneity; simultaneousness (happening or existing or done at the same time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "concurrence"):
concomitance (occurrence or existence together or in connection with one another)
overlap (the property of partial coincidence in time)
contemporaneity; contemporaneousness (the quality of belonging to the same period of time)
unison (occurring together or simultaneously)
Derivation:
concur (happen simultaneously)
concurrent (occurring or operating at the same time)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Agreement of results or opinions
Synonyms:
concurrence; concurrency
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("concurrence" is a kind of...):
agreement (the verbal act of agreeing)
Derivation:
concur (be in accord; be in agreement)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A state of cooperation
Synonyms:
concurrence; meeting of minds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("concurrence" is a kind of...):
accord; agreement (harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters)
Context examples:
Lady Bertram made no objection; and every one concerned in the going was forward in expressing their ready concurrence, excepting Edmund, who heard it all and said nothing.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
This was the last inconvenience which I should have expected a famous prize-fighter to be subjected to, but several bull-faced fellows at the other side of the table nodded their concurrence.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mr. Knightley was fortunate in every body's most ready concurrence.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Seriously, however, she felt tolerably persuaded that all this must have taken place with that gentleman's concurrence.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
“Be it so, Clarissa!” assented Miss Lavinia resignedly—“to me—and receiving our concurrence.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It was a connexion exactly of the right sort—in the same county, and the same interest—and his most hearty concurrence was conveyed as soon as possible.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The thing is determined, that is (laughing affectedly) as far as I can presume to determine any thing without the concurrence of my lord and master.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
If it could not be done with Mr. Mills's sanction and concurrence, I besought a clandestine interview in the back kitchen where the Mangle was.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He agreed to it, but with so quiet a Yes, as inclined her almost to doubt his real concurrence; and yet there must be a very distinct sort of elegance for the fashionable world, if Jane Fairfax could be thought only ordinarily gifted with it.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Observing that he slightly faltered, and comprehending that in the goodness of his heart he was fearful of giving me some pain by what he had said, I expressed my concurrence with a heartiness that evidently relieved and pleased him greatly.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
