What is the difference between concomitant and collateral?
concomitant | collateral |
Accompanying; conjoined; attending; concurrent.
* (John Locke)
* 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 41:
Something happening or existing at the same time.
* 1970 , , Bantam Books , pg.93:
* 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 301:
An invariant homogeneous polynomial in the coefficients of a form, a covariant variable, and a contravariant variable.
parallel, along the same vein, side by side.
Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.
* Wordsworth
Being aside from the main subject; tangential, subordinate, ancillary.
* Macaulay
(family ) of an indirect ancestral relationship, as opposed to lineal descendency.
* 1885 , , The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , volume 5,
relating to a collateral in the sense of an obligation or security
expensive to the extent of being paid through a loan
Coming or directed along the side.
* Shakespeare
Acting in an indirect way.
* Shakespeare
A security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay. (Originally supplied as "accompanying" security.)
A collateral (not linear) family member.
A branch of a bodily part or system of organs
(marketing) printed materials or content of electronic media used to enhance sales of products (short form of collateral material)
A thinner blood vessel providing an alternate route to blood flow in case the main vessel gets occluded.
As adjectives the difference between concomitant and collateral
is that concomitant is accompanying; conjoined; attending; concurrent while collateral is parallel, along the same vein, side by side.As nouns the difference between concomitant and collateral
is that concomitant is something happening or existing at the same time while collateral is a security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay. (Originally supplied as "accompanying" security..concomitant
English
Adjective
(-)- It has pleased our wise Creator to annex to several objects, as also to several of our thoughts, a concomitant pleasure.
- 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, incidentalNoun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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.
Synonyms
* (a concomitant event or situation) accompaniment, co-occurrencecollateral
English
Adjective
(-)- Yet the attempt may give / Collateral interest to this homely tale.
- Although not a direct cause, the border skirmish was certainly a collateral incitement for the war.
- That he [Atterbury] was altogether in the wrong on the main question, and on all the collateral questions springing out of it, is true.
- ''Uncles, aunts, cousins, nephews and nieces are collateral relatives.
- The pure blood all descends from five collateral lines called Al-Khamsah (the Cinque).
- collateral pressure
- collateral light
- If by direct or by collateral hand / They find us touched, we will our kingdom give / To you in satisfaction.
Derived terms
* collaterality * collaterally * collateral damage * collateral form * collateral material * collateral securityNoun
(wikipedia collateral) (en noun)- ''Besides the arteries blood streams through numerous veins we call collaterals
