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CONCURRENT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Occurring or operating at the same time
Example:
a series of coincident events
Synonyms:
co-occurrent; coincident; coincidental; coinciding; concurrent; cooccurring; simultaneous
Classified under:
Similar:
synchronal; synchronic; synchronous (occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase)
Derivation:
concur (happen simultaneously)
concurrence (the temporal property of two things happening at the same time)
Context examples:
Laís Canniatti Brazaca, a physician and researcher at the São Carlos Chemistry Institute and one of the authors of the study published in Biosensors and Bioelectronics, told: The concentrations of various metabolites in tears reflect concurrent blood levels, making them an attractive medium for non-invasive monitoring of physiological parameters.
(Brazilian researchers eye biosensors to monitor diabetes, SciDev.Net)
