concurrent
pronunciation
How to pronounce concurrent in British English:
UK [kənˈkʌrənt]
How to pronounce concurrent in American English:
US [kənˈkɜːrənt]
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- Adjective:
- occurring or operating at the same time
Word Origin
- concurrent (adj.)
- late 14c., from Old French concurrent or directly from Latin concurrentem (nominative concurrens), present participle of concurrere (see concur). Related: Concurrency; concurrently. Concurrent jurisdiction is recorded from 1767.
Example
- 1. In concurrent voting for pakistan 's four provincial assemblies , it also won a majority in sindh .
- 2. Both listings could happen as early as october , and the two issues are expected to be concurrent .
- 3. Leslie lamport is a computer scientist and an expert on distributed systems , temporal logic , and concurrent algorithms .
- 4. People who come to treatment tend to have concurrent psychiatric illness , and they also tend to be less responsive to treatment .
- 5. This scale of losses and the concurrent bonus payments could not have built up under a prudent accounting system .