Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A less common variant of concurrence.
  • noun In logic, a relation in which no individual object stands to any other than itself, such as ‘being at once black and also—.’

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Concurrence.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The property or an instance of being concurrent; something that happens at the same time as something else.
  • noun computer science a property of systems where several processes execute at the same time

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun acting together, as agents or circumstances or events
  • noun agreement of results or opinions

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Examples

  • Martina Morris, a sociologist at the University of Washington, has shown that long-term concurrency is more of a public health danger than serial monogamy because it permits HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases to spread to others quickly, rather than confining them in a single relationship for months or years.

    God and the Fight Against AIDS Epstein, Helen 2005

  • In 1986, Ugandan health officials had not heard of "long-term concurrency" and Professor Morris had not constructed the computer models that traced the transmission of HIV.

    God and the Fight Against AIDS Epstein, Helen 2005

  • Also, for anyone who is still awake, I've updated the long-term concurrency charts to show data by week and by month, instead of just by day.

    World of SL 2010

  • Also, for anyone who is still awake, I've updated the long-term concurrency charts to show data by week and by month, instead of just by day.

    World of SL 2010

  • "We also have a runtime that we call the concurrency runtime that enables you to take advantage of parallel this," move to parallelism, Somasegar said.

    eWeek - RSS Feeds 2009

  • At the base level we have a new runtime called the concurrency runtime, which allows me as a developer to take advantage of all the cores present on the machine.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2008

  • At the base level we have a new runtime called the concurrency runtime, which allows me as a developer to take advantage of all the cores present on the machine.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2008

  • At the base level we have a new runtime called the concurrency runtime, which allows me as a developer to take advantage of all the cores present on the machine.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2008

  • At the base level we have a new runtime called the concurrency runtime, which allows me as a developer to take advantage of all the cores present on the machine.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2008

  • Lockheed's latest run-in with the Pentagon sees defense chiefs trying to tie additional funding for the next batch of F-35s to a formula involving a so-called concurrency clause, where the cost of additional work discovered during aircraft testing would fall to suppliers.

    Lockheed Faces New Funding Challenge on F-35 Program Doug Cameron 2011

  • Monkeypox could potentially spread in settings where heterosexuals have a lot of sex—like college campuses—but the number and overlap of sex partners (what researchers call “concurrency”) makes a big difference in risk level.

    Monkeypox Is Mainly Spread Through Sex. It’s OK to Say That. Liz Highleyman 2022

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