simultaneity

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Someday we'll reach true simultaneity -- enter warp, and come out just where we want to be, at the same time.

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  1. The state or fact of being simultaneous. The organs [heart, lungs, etc.] of these never-ceasing functions furnish, indeed, the most conclusive proofs of the simultaneity of repair and waste. H. Spencer, Prin. of Biol., § 62. In the palmiest days of Sydney Smith and Macaulay … the great principle of simultaneity in conversation, as we may call it, had not been discovered, and it was still supposed that two people could not with advantage talk at once. The Nation, Nov. 29, 1883, p. 444.

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  • Clarity and simultaneity are not its virtues or desires.
  • By rejecting the notion of absolute simultaneity, Einstein explained how either observer could see relativistic effects experienced by the other, relatively moving observer. —  Strange Horizons Aug '01
  • Thomas M. Allen describes Anderson's intervention, clock time "created a shared 'simultaneity' of experience that linked individuals together in an 'imagined community' moving together through time." —  Legal History Blog
  • Lefebvre defined the essence of urbanness, Shields writes, "as the simultaneity of many discrete social interactions brought together in a centrality," and "analyzed the impact of changing social relations and economic factors under capitalism upon the quality of access and participation in the urban milieu." —  Political Affairs Magazine
  • The logical simultaneity, or rather inseparability, of past, present, and future is treated as equivalent to the logical simultaneity of above, middle, and below in 19.4. —  Joseph S. O'Leary homepage
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  1. =F. simultanéité =Spanish simultaneidad =Portuguese simultaneidade, from Middle Latin simultaneus, happening at the same time: see simultaneous.
 

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