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Commensurate vs Concurrent - What's the difference?

commensurate | concurrent |

As adjectives the difference between commensurate and concurrent

is that commensurate is of a proportionate or similar measurable standard while concurrent is happening at the same time; simultaneous.

As a verb commensurate

is to reduce to a common measure.

As a noun concurrent is

one who, or that which, concurs; a joint or contributory cause.

commensurate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.
    • If it is essential in our interests to maintain a quasi-permanent position of power on the Asian mainland as against the Chinese then we must be prepared to continue to pay the present cost in Vietnam indefinitely and to meet any escalation on the other side with at least a commensurate escalation of commitment of our own. - Report to the President on Southeast Asia-Vietnam by Senator Mike Mansfield, December 18, 1962

    Antonyms

    * incommensurate

    Verb

    (commensurat)
  • To reduce to a common measure.
    • (Sir Thomas Browne)
  • To proportionate; to adjust.

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    concurrent

    English

    of building models [http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Concurrent_testings].

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Happening at the same time; simultaneous.
  • * Tyndall
    • changes concurrent with the visual changes in the eye
    (Francis Bacon)
  • Belonging to the same period; contemporary.
  • Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contibuting to the same event of effect.
  • * Sir J. Davies
    • I join with these laws the personal presence of the king's son, as a concurrent cause of this reformation.
  • * Bishop Warburton
    • the concurrent testimony of antiquity
  • Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects.
    • the concurrent jurisdiction of courts
  • (geometry) Meeting in one point.
  • Running alongside one another on parallel courses; moving together in space.
  • (computing) Involving more than one thread of computation.

    • Coordinate terms

    * leading, lagging

    Derived terms

    * concurrent indicator * concurrently

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, concurs; a joint or contributory cause.
  • * Dr. H. More
    • To all affairs of importance there are three necessary concurrents time, industry, and faculties.
  • One pursuing the same course, or seeking the same objects; hence, a rival; an opponent.
  • * Holland
    • Menander had no concurrent in his time that came near unto him.
  • One of the supernumerary days of the year over fifty-two complete weeks; so called because they concur with the solar cycle, the course of which they follow.
    • (Webster 1913) ----