concurrent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəŋˈkʌɹənt/
ipa: /kɒŋˈkʌɹənt/
ipa: /kəŋˈkɝɹənt/
Forms: form: more concurrent
form: most concurrent
Etymology: From Middle English concurrent, from Old French concurrent, from Latin concurrēns, present active participle of concurrō (“happen at the same time”), from con- (“with”) + currō (“run”).
Senses: examples: text: concurrent echo
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “III. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: Such are the changes which science recognizes in the wire itself, as concurrent with the visual changes taking place in the eye.
ref: 1865, John Tyndall, “On Radiation”, in Fragments of Science for Unscientific People, pages 171–2:
glosses: Happening at the same time; simultaneous.
glosses: Belonging to the same period; contemporary.
examples: text: I join with these laws the personal presence of the king's son, as a concurrent cause of this reformation.
ref: 1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued:
text: the concurrent testimony of antiquity
ref: 1738–1741, William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II.1, or II.2), London: […] Fletcher Gyles, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contributing to the same event or effect.
examples: text: the concurrent jurisdiction of courts
glosses: Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Meeting in one point.
glosses: Running alongside one another on parallel courses; moving together in space.
examples: text: Informally, a concurrent program is one that does more than one thing at a time. […] However, this simultaneity is sometimes an illusion.
ref: 2000, Douglas Lea, Concurrent Programming in Java, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 19:
text: Different concurrent designs enable different ways to parallelize.
ref: 2012, Rob Pike, “Concurrency is not Parallelism”, in Waza Conference, San Francisco, page 21:
text: More precisely, a concurrent algorithm (or concurrent program) is the description of a set of sequential state machines that cooperate through a communication medium, e. g., a shared memory.
ref: 2012, Michel Raynal, Concurrent Programming, Springer Science & Business, →ISBN, page 4:
text: Many languages are dogmatic about the solutions they offer for handling concurrent problems. For example, Erlang has elegant functionality for message-passing concurrency but has only obscure ways to share state between threads.
ref: 2018, Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols, The Rust Programming Language, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 342:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: sequential
glosses: Designed to run independently, rather than sequentially, using various mechanisms, such as threads, event loops or time-slicing.
raw_tags: of code
Coordinate terms: leading
lagging
Derived terms: autoconcurrent
concurrent estate
concurrent indicator
concurrently
concurrentness
nonconcurrent
unconcurrent