CONCURRENT, adjective 1. Meeting; uniting; accompanying; acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act; contributing to the same event or effect; operating with. I join with these laws the personal presence of the Kings son, as a concurrent cause of this reformation. All combined, your beauty, and my impotence of mind, and his concurrent flame, that blew my fire. 2. Conjoined; associate; concomitant. There is no difference between the concurrent echo and the iterant, but the quickness or slowness of the return. 3. Joint and equal; existing together and operating on the same objects. The courts of the United States, and those of the States have, in some cases, concurrent jurisdiction. CONCURRENT, noun That which concurs; joint or contributory cause. To all affairs of importance there are three necessary concurrents-time, industry and faculties.
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