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SIMULTANEOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Occurring or operating at the same time
Example:
a series of coincident events
Synonyms:
co-occurrent; coincident; coincidental; coinciding; concurrent; cooccurring; simultaneous
Classified under:
Similar:
synchronal; synchronic; synchronous (occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase)
Derivation:
simultaneity; simultaneousness (happening or existing or done at the same time)
Context examples:
These simultaneous developments, the scientists believe, likely occurred in conjunction with changes in how creatures walked and ran.
(What makes a mammal a mammal? Our spine, say scientists, National Science Foundation)
The study showed that El Niño can result in simultaneous crop failures in different parts of the world, with certain regions particularly at risk.
(El Niño linked to widespread crop failures, SciDev.Net)
The simultaneous hybridization of multiple chromosome painting probes, each tagged with a specific fluorochrome or fluorochrome combination, has resulted in the differential color display of chromosomes, i.e. spectral or color karyotyping.
(Chromosome Painting, NCI Thesaurus)
A type of spiral computed tomography that employs multiple rows of detectors, each capable of producing a simultaneous image (slice).
(Multi-slice Spiral Computed Tomography, NCI Thesaurus)
Use of two or more simultaneous or consecutive treatment modalities; e.g., surgery + radiation, or radiation + immunotherapy.
(Multimodality therapy, NCI Thesaurus)
A phenotype whereby a subset of tumors are characterized by the simultaneous hypermethylation of multiple promoter-associated CpG islands.
(CpG Island Methylator Phenotype, NCI Thesaurus)
The combination of simultaneous resorption and deposition creates continual remodeling of bone while excess osteoclast activity leads to an imbalance and a loss of bone density, causing osteoporosis.
(Bone Remodeling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
This placement creates a 12 lead ECG that allows the acquisition of simultaneous events in the frontal, horizontral and sagittal heart planes with the linear transformation of vectors.
(Lead Placement EASI Dower Transformation, NCI Thesaurus)
In point of fact the three actions of perceiving, determining, and responding were sequential; but so infinitesimal were the intervals of time between them that they appeared simultaneous.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Both tackles were hooked in a trice, and the three men, deftly timing the roll, made a simultaneous leap aboard the schooner.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
