Hypertext Webster Gateway: "contemporaneous"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Contemporaneous \Con*tem`po*ra"ne*ous\, a. [L. contemporaneus;
con- + tempus time. See {Temporal}, and cf.
{Contemporaneous}.]
Living, existing, or occurring at the same time;
contemporary.
The great age of Jewish philosophy, that of Aben Esra,
Maimonides, and Kimchi, had been contemporaneous with
the later Spanish school of Arabic philosophy. --Milman
-- {Con*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
contemporaneous
adj 1: occurring in the same period of time; "a rise in interest
rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in
inflation"; "the composer Salieri was contemporary
with Mozart" [syn: {contemporary}]
2: of the same period [syn: {coetaneous}, {coeval}]
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