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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To be of the same opinion; agree: concurred on the issue of preventing crime. See Synonyms at assent.
  2. v. To act together; cooperate.
  3. v. To occur at the same time; coincide: icy sleet that concurred with a forceful wind.
  4. v. Obsolete To converge; meet.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To run together; meet in a point in space.
  2. To come together or be accordant, as in character, action, or opinion; agree; coincide: followed by with before the person or thing and in before the object of concurrence.
  3. To unite; combine; be associated: as, many causes concurred in bringing about his fall.
  4. Eccles., to fall on two consecutive days, as two feasts. See concurrence, 4.
  5. To assent: with to.
  6. In law, to assert, with other claimants, a claim against the estate of an insolvent.
  7. In English law, to unite in two or more persons the title to a single estate.
  8. n. In mod. geom., the straight determined by two coplanar flat pencils.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To unite or agree (in action or opinion); to have a common opinion; to coincide; to correspond.
  2. v. To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help towards a common object or effect.
  3. v. To run together; to meet.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To run together; to meet.
  2. v. To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help toward a common object or effect.
  3. v. To unite or agree (in action or opinion); to join; to act jointly; to agree; to coincide; to correspond.
  4. v. To assent; to consent.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. be in accord; be in agreement
  2. v. happen simultaneously

Etymologies

  1. Middle English concurren, from Latin concurrere, to meet, coincide : com-, com- + currere, to run; see kers- in Indo-European roots.

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