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Concurrent vs Height - What's the difference?

concurrent | height |

As nouns the difference between concurrent and height

is that concurrent is one who, or that which, concurs; a joint or contributory cause while height is the distance from the base of something to the top.

As an adjective concurrent

is happening at the same time; simultaneous.

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) ----

    height

    English

    Alternative forms

    * highth * heighth

    Noun

  • The distance from the base of something to the top.
  • * Robert Frost
    • Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
  • The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse).
  • The highest point or maximum degree.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 29, author=Neil Johnston, title=Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn
    • , work=BBC Sport citation , passage=If City never quite reached the heights of their 6-1 demolition of United, then Roberto Mancini's side should still have had this game safe long before Johnson restored their two-goal advantage.}}
  • (Sussex) An area of land at the top of a cliff.

    • Related terms

    * high

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    Antonyms

    * depth

    External links

    * (wikipedia "height")

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