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Concomitant vs Ancillary - What's the difference?

concomitant | ancillary |

As adjectives the difference between concomitant and ancillary

is that concomitant is accompanying; conjoined; attending; concurrent while ancillary is subordinate; secondary; auxiliary; accessory.

As nouns the difference between concomitant and ancillary

is that concomitant is something happening or existing at the same time while ancillary is something that serves an ancillary function, such as an easel for a painter.

concomitant

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Accompanying; conjoined; attending; concurrent.
  • * (John Locke)
    • It has pleased our wise Creator to annex to several objects, as also to several of our thoughts, a concomitant pleasure.
  • * 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 41:
    • The new technology on which super-industrialism is based, much of it blue-printed in American research laboratories, brings with it an inevitable acceleration of change in society and a concomitant speed-up of the pace of individual life as well.

    Synonyms

    * (following as a consequence) accompanying, adjoining, attendant, incidental

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something happening or existing at the same time.
  • * 1970 , , Bantam Books , pg.93:
    • The declining commitment to place is thus related not to mobility per se, but to a concomitant of mobility- the shorter duration of place relationships.
  • * 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 301:
    • It is also instructive to consider the relation of these dreams to anxiety dreams. In the dreams we have been discussing, a repressed wish has found a means of evading censorship—and the distortion which censorship involves. The invariable concomitant is that painful feelings are experienced in the dream.
  • An invariant homogeneous polynomial in the coefficients of a form, a covariant variable, and a contravariant variable.

    • Synonyms

    * (a concomitant event or situation) accompaniment, co-occurrence

    Related terms

    * concomitance * concomitantly * concomitate ----

    ancillary

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Subordinate; secondary; auxiliary; accessory.
  • * 1836 , :
    • how easily he took all things along with him,—the persons, the opinions, and the day, and nature became ancillary to a man.
  • * 1898 ,
    • [E]very organ of the body, whatever function it may perform, must also perform the other four functions in an ancillary manner.

    Noun

    (ancillaries)
  • Something that serves an ancillary function, such as an easel for a painter.
  • (archaic) An auxiliary; a subordinate.

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