concurrence
concurrences
When things happen at the same time, it's a concurrence. If you pull up at a traffic light and you see your teacher in the car next to yours and your neighbor behind you, it's an unlikely concurrence.
The Latin root of concurrence is concurrentia, which means "a running together." You can use the noun concurrence to describe things that exist together or at the same time, and also when there's an agreement, especially of results or opinions, like a concurrence of opinions among the school board about spending money on a new playground, or a concurrence in your family about wanting pancakes for breakfast.
Definitions of concurrence
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the temporal property of two things happening at the same time
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synonyms:
co-occurrence, coincidence, conjunction
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concomitance
occurrence or existence together or in connection with one another
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overlap
the property of partial coincidence in time
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contemporaneity, contemporaneousness
the quality of belonging to the same period of time
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unison
the act of occurring together or simultaneously
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simultaneity, simultaneousness
happening or existing or done at the same time
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agreement of results or opinions
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synonyms:
concurrency
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agreement
the verbal act of agreeing
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agreement
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a state of cooperation
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synonyms:
meeting of minds
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acting together, as agents or circumstances or events
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synonyms:
concurrency
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cooperation
joint operation or action
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cooperation
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