concurrent

Academic Word List, sublist 9.

About 4.57 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Happening at the same time; simultaneous.
2. adjective Belonging to the same period; contemporary.
3. adjective Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contributing to the same event or effect.
4. adjective Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects.

   the concurrent jurisdiction of courts

5. adjective Meeting in one point.
6. adjective Running alongside one another on parallel courses; moving together in space.
7. adjective Designed to run independently, rather than sequentially, using various mechanisms, such as threads, event loops or time-slicing.
8. noun One who, or that which, concurs; a joint or contributory cause.

Similar words

simultaneous coincident synchronous coinciding synchronic coincidental synchronal at the same time cooccurring simultaneously

Often followed by

with jurisdiction use resolution engineering validity and list testimony

Word family

concurrently concurrents