1. (adj.)concurrent occurring or existing simultaneously or side by side: serving two concurrent prison sentences.
2. concurrent acting in conjunction; cooperating: the concurrent efforts of medical researchers.
3. concurrent having equal authority or jurisdiction: concurrent courts of law.
4. concurrent accordant or agreeing.
5. concurrent intersecting or tending to intersect at the same point: four concurrent lines.
6. (n.)concurrent a concurrent action, process, effort, etc.
Etymology: (1375–1425; late ME (< MF) < L concurrent-, s. of concurrēns, prp. of concurrere to run together; see concur)
Definition of 'concurrent'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (adj)coincident, coincidental, coinciding, concurrent, co-occurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous occurring or operating at the sametime "a series of coincident events"
Definition of 'concurrent'
Webster Dictionary
1. (adj)concurrent acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contributing to the sameevent or effect; cooperating
2. (adj)concurrent conjoined; associate; concomitant; existing or happening at the sametime
5. (noun)concurrent one who, or that which, concurs; a joint or contributory cause
6. (noun)concurrent one pursuing the same course, or seeking the same objects; hence, a rival; an opponent
7. (noun)concurrent one of the supernumerarydays of the yearover fifty-two complete weeks; -- so called because they concur with the solar cycle, the course of which they follow