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.
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.