concurrency

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Long-term "concurrency" is far more common in Africa than in Asia and in the West, where heterosexual people tend to practice "serial monogamy."

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  1. noun Concurrence: "Concurrency of development with deployment . . . has almost always proven counterproductive” (Harold Brown).

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  • Long-term "concurrency" is far more common in Africa than in Asia and in the West, where heterosexual people tend to practice "serial monogamy." —  God and the Fight Against AIDS
  • Martina Morris, a sociologist at the University of Washington, has shown that long-term concurrency is more of a public health danger than serial monogamy because it permits HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases to spread to others quickly, rather than confining them in a single relationship for months or years. —  God and the Fight Against AIDS
  • In 1986, Ugandan health officials had not heard of "long-term concurrency" and Professor Morris had not constructed the computer models that traced the transmission of HIV. —  God and the Fight Against AIDS
  • QUESTION: (OFF-MIKE) First of all, do those gaps amount to a breach, and secondly, how much concurrency is there between -- in terms of figures -- between you and the Americans? —  CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2002
  • What Microsoft is delivering in Visual Studio 2010 includes tooling such as debugging tools for coding for concurrency, and delivering parallel libraries to enable developers to parallelize certain parts of their application - such as the Task Parallel Library (TPL). —  eWeek - RSS Feeds
 

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/kənˈkərənsi/
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