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CONCURRENCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does concurrence mean?
• CONCURRENCE (noun)
The noun CONCURRENCE has 4 senses:
1. agreement of results or opinions
2. acting together, as agents or circumstances or events
4. the temporal property of two things happening at the same time
Familiarity information: CONCURRENCE used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Agreement of results or opinions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
concurrence; concurrency
Hypernyms ("concurrence" is a kind of...):
agreement (the verbal act of agreeing)
Derivation:
concur (be in accord; be in agreement)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Acting together, as agents or circumstances or events
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
concurrence; concurrency
Hypernyms ("concurrence" is a kind of...):
cooperation (joint operation or action)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A state of cooperation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
concurrence; meeting of minds
Hypernyms ("concurrence" is a kind of...):
accord; agreement (harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The temporal property of two things happening at the same time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
co-occurrence; coincidence; concurrence; conjunction
Context example:
the interval determining the coincidence gate is adjustable
Hypernyms ("concurrence" is a kind of...):
simultaneity; simultaneousness (happening or existing or done at the same time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "concurrence"):
concomitance (occurrence or existence together or in connection with one another)
overlap (the property of partial coincidence in time)
contemporaneity; contemporaneousness (the quality of belonging to the same period of time)
unison (occurring together or simultaneously)
Derivation:
concur (happen simultaneously)
concurrent (occurring or operating at the same time)
Context examples
She could not have supposed it in the power of any concurrence of circumstances to give her so many painful sensations on the first day of hearing of William's promotion.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
“My dear sir,” replied Mr. Collins, “I am particularly obliged to you for this friendly caution, and you may depend upon my not taking so material a step without her ladyship's concurrence.”
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
"I used to be all softness and gentleness," he nodded concurrence. "Was that why you left me?"
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
“With the concurrence of His Royal Highness and of the company, I shall select him as our champion on this occasion.”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Uriah, with his long hands slowly twining over one another, made a ghastly writhe from the waist upwards, to express his concurrence in this estimation of me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
And how suffer him to leave her without saying one word of gratitude, of concurrence, of common kindness!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Without concurrence or opposition.
(Neither Agree or Disagree, NCI Thesaurus)
Elinor was grateful for the attention, but it could not alter her design; and their mother's concurrence being readily gained, every thing relative to their return was arranged as far as it could be;—and Marianne found some relief in drawing up a statement of the hours that were yet to divide her from Barton.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
A predominant feeling of concurrence.
(Mostly Agree, NCI Thesaurus)
An unequivocal feeling of concurrence.
(Definitely Agree, NCI Thesaurus)
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