Concurrence
noun ·3 syllables ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Agreement; concurring. countable, uncountable
- 2 acting together, as agents or circumstances or events wordnet
- 3 An instance of simultaneous occurrence. countable, uncountable
"The time came when they ceased to cry and began to think; by the way, if Georgiana had not, from a concurrence of circumstances, been enabled to eat her breakfast, this operation of the mind could not have been engaged in without further injury, for she was, indeed, weak and exhausted;..."
- 4 the temporal property of two things happening at the same time wordnet
- 5 agreement of results or opinions wordnet
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- 6 a state of cooperation wordnet
Example
More examples"The time came when they ceased to cry and began to think; by the way, if Georgiana had not, from a concurrence of circumstances, been enabled to eat her breakfast, this operation of the mind could not have been engaged in without further injury, for she was, indeed, weak and exhausted;..."
Etymology
From Old French concurrence.
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