Con*cur"rent (?), a. [F. concurrent, L. concurrens, p. pr. of concurrere.]
1.
Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contibuting to the same event of effect; cooperating.
I join with these laws the personal presence of the kings' son, as a concurrent cause of this reformation.
Sir J. Davies.
The concurrent testimony of antiquity.
Bp. Warburton.
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.
Bacon.
Changes . . . concurrent with the visual changes in the eye.
Tyndall.
3.
Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects; as, the concurrent jurisdiction of courts.
4. Geom.
Meeting in one point.
Syn. -- Meeting; uniting; accompanying; conjoined; associated; coincident; united.
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Con*cur"rent, n.
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.
Dr. H. More.
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.
Holland.
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.
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