concurrent en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /kəŋˈkɝɹənt/ hurry–furry merger
- /kəŋˈkɐɹənt/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
- /kəŋˈkʌɹənt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /kɒŋˈkʌɹənt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /kəŋˈkʌɹənt/ without the hurry–furry merger
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”).
Meanings
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Happening at the same time; simultaneous.
Such are the changes which science recognizes in the wire itself, as concurrent with the visual changes taking place in the eye.
1865, John Tyndall, “On Radiation”, in Fragments of Science for Unscientific People, pages 171–2:In 1915, concurrent with the L.S.W.R. electrification, power was supplied from the Waterloo sub-station, and the old equipment held in reserve. Some generator sets were removed, and motor generators installed for standby lighting and other services.
1958 August 14, T. S. Lascelles, “Diamond Jubilee of the Waterloo & City Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 523:concurrent echo
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:
- Belonging to the same period; contemporary.
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Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contributing to the same event or effect.
I join with these laws the personal presence of the king's son, as a concurrent cause of this reformation.
1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued:the concurrent testimony of antiquity
1738–1741, William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II.1, or II.2), London: […] Fletcher Gyles, […], →OCLC:
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Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects.
the concurrent jurisdiction of courts
- Meeting in one point.
- Running alongside one another on parallel courses; moving together in space.
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(of code) Designed to run independently, rather than sequentially, using various mechanisms, such as threads, event loops or time-slicing.
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.
2012, Michel Raynal, Concurrent Programming, Springer Science & Business, →ISBN, page 4:Different concurrent designs enable different ways to parallelize.
2012, Rob Pike, “Concurrency is not Parallelism”, in Waza Conference, San Francisco, page 21: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.
2018, Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols, The Rust Programming Language, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 342:Informally, a concurrent program is one that does more than one thing at a time. […] However, this simultaneity is sometimes an illusion.
2000, Douglas Lea, Concurrent Programming in Java, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 19:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more concurrent | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most concurrent | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Coordinates
Deriveds
concurrently · unconcurrent · concurrent estate · autoconcurrent · concurrent indicator · nonconcurrent · concurrentness
Translations (64)
it concorrente (happening at the same time; simultaneous) · sh simultano (happening at the same time; simultaneous) · es concurrente (happening at the same time; simultaneous) · gl simultáneo (happening at the same time; simultaneous) · ru одновреме́нный (happening at the same time; simultaneous) · pt concorrente (involving more than one thread of computation) · he מַקְבִּיל (belonging to the same period; contemporary) · es contemporáneo (belonging to the same period; contemporary) · pt corrente (belonging to the same period; contemporary) · cs souběžný (happening at the same time; simultaneous) · sh suvremeno (belonging to the same period; contemporary) · pt paralelo (involving more than one thread of computation) · fr parallèle (involving more than one thread of computation) · oc contemporanèu (belonging to the same period; contemporary) · fi samanaikainen (happening at the same time; simultaneous) · fr concomitant (happening at the same time; simultaneous) · pl jednoczesny (happening at the same time; simultaneous) · tr çağdaş (belonging to the same period; contemporary) · de parallel (involving more than one thread of computation) · fi aikalainen (belonging to the same period; contemporary) · de zeitgenössisch (belonging to the same period; contemporary) · pt simultâneo (happening at the same time; simultaneous) · sh istovremeno (happening at the same time; simultaneous) · tr aynı zamanda (happening at the same time; simultaneous) · sh istodobno (happening at the same time; simultaneous) · tr paralel (involving more than one thread of computation) · pl ówczesny (belonging to the same period; contemporary) · mi ngātahi (happening at the same time; simultaneous) · ca concurrent (happening at the same time; simultaneous) · mi tukutahi (happening at the same time; simultaneous) · gl contemporáneo (belonging to the same period; contemporary) · is samskeiða (involving more than one thread of computation) · ru паралле́льный (happening at the same time; simultaneous) · bg съвпадащ (belonging to the same period; contemporary) · ru совпада́ющий (belonging to the same period; contemporary) · ru паралле́льный (involving more than one thread of computation) · pl równoczesny (happening at the same time; simultaneous) · nl simultaan (happening at the same time; simultaneous) · nl tegelijk (happening at the same time; simultaneous) · he מַקְבִּיל (happening at the same time; simultaneous) · nl hedendaags (belonging to the same period; contemporary) · mi ngātatahi (happening at the same time; simultaneous) · de gleichzeitig (happening at the same time; simultaneous) · fr simultané (happening at the same time; simultaneous) · it concomitante (happening at the same time; simultaneous) · pt concomitante (happening at the same time; simultaneous) · bg едновременен (happening at the same time; simultaneous) · tr eş zamanlı (happening at the same time; simultaneous) · eo samtempulo (belonging to the same period; contemporary) · fr contemporain (belonging to the same period; contemporary) · ca concurrent (belonging to the same period; contemporary) · mi tautokorua (happening at the same time; simultaneous) · pl współbieżny (involving more than one thread of computation) · pl równoległy (involving more than one thread of computation) · es simultáneo (happening at the same time; simultaneous) · pt contemporâneo (belonging to the same period; contemporary) · it simultaneo (happening at the same time; simultaneous) · it contemporaneo (belonging to the same period; contemporary) · it coetaneo (belonging to the same period; contemporary) · fi senaikainen (belonging to the same period; contemporary) · nl tegelijkertijd (happening at the same time; simultaneous) · ca concurrent (involving more than one thread of computation) · ru совреме́нный (belonging to the same period; contemporary) · fi rinnakkainen (involving more than one thread of computation)