simultaneous

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Forex trading is defined as the simultaneous buying of one currency and selling of another.

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  1. adjective Happening, existing, or done at the same time. See Synonyms at contemporary.
  2. adjective Mathematics Containing variables for which there are values that can satisfy all the equations: simultaneous equations.

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  • He was frequently sent to Scotland again on similarly secret errands, and seems to have established a printing business there, made arrangements for the simultaneous issue of the Review in Edinburgh and London, besides organizing Edinburgh newspapers, executing commissions for English merchants, and setting on foot a linen manufactory. —  Daniel Defoe
  • The impression thus produced he has sought to convey to others, partly in the form of ordinary narrative,—daily living with his hero,—and partly by such grouping of incidents and utterances, not always, nor even nearly, simultaneous, as shall serve by their joint evidence to emphasize particular traits, or particular opinions, more forcibly than when such testimonies are scattered far apart; as they would be, if recounted in a strict order of time. —  The Life of Nelson, Vol. I
  • Forex trading is defined as the simultaneous buying of one currency and selling of another. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • The arrangement for the serialization of a long story in a magazine, the placing of short stories and articles in magazines, the selling of stories, articles, and books in England, and arranging the simultaneous issue in both countries,--all this involves an immense amount of detail which one has to encounter fully to realize. —  The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing
  • The shots had been simultaneous, and the miner fell, without a groan, without a murmur, forward across the table, carrying it with him to the floor. —  A Girl of the Klondike
 

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  1. Latin simul, at the same time; see sem-1 in Indo-European roots + English -taneous (as in instantaneous).

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  1. =F. simultané =Spanish simultáneo =Portuguese Italian simultaneo, from Middle Latin simultaneus, from simultim, at the same time, extended from Latin simul, together, at the same time: see similar.
 

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/saɪməlˈteɪnəəs/
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