Contemporaneously

//kənˌtɛmpəˈɹeɪni.əsli// adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In the same period of time. not-comparable
Adverb
  1. 1
    during the same period of time wordnet

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at same timeat the same timecotemporallycotemporallysimultaneouslysimultaneously

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"Contemporaneously with this era, and following on through the seventeenth century, came the measurements of the earth by French geodesists, the construction of greater and greater telescopes and the wonderful discoveries with them."

Etymology

From contemporaneous + -ly, from Latin contemporāneus, from co- (“together”) + tempus (“time”).

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