Concurrent vs Modern - What's the difference?
concurrent | modern |
Happening at the same time; simultaneous.
* Tyndall
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
* Bishop Warburton
Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects.
(geometry) Meeting in one point.
Running alongside one another on parallel courses; moving together in space.
(computing) Involving more than one thread of computation.
One who, or that which, concurs; a joint or contributory cause.
* Dr. H. More
One pursuing the same course, or seeking the same objects; hence, a rival; an opponent.
* Holland
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)
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Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.
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*:But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ΒΆ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window.
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, title= (lb) Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.
Someone who lives in modern times.
* 1779 , Edward Capell, ?John Collins, Notes and various readings to Shakespeare
* 1956 , John Albert Wilson, The Culture of Ancient Egypt (page 144)
As adjectives the difference between concurrent and modern
is that concurrent is happening at the same time; simultaneous while modern is pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.As nouns the difference between concurrent and modern
is that concurrent is one who, or that which, concurs; a joint or contributory cause while modern is someone who lives in modern times.concurrent
English
of building models [http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Concurrent_testings].Adjective
(en adjective)- changes concurrent with the visual changes in the eye
- (Francis Bacon)
- I join with these laws the personal presence of the king's son, as a concurrent cause of this reformation.
- the concurrent testimony of antiquity
- the concurrent jurisdiction of courts
Coordinate terms
* leading, laggingDerived terms
* concurrent indicator * concurrentlyNoun
(en noun)- To all affairs of importance there are three necessary concurrents time, industry, and faculties.
- Menander had no concurrent in his time that came near unto him.
modern
English
Adjective
(en-adj)Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}
Synonyms
* contemporaryAntonyms
* dated * old * pre-modern * ancientDerived terms
* modern-day * modernise, modernize verb * modernity noun * postmodern (''see also prepostmodern, postpostmodern) * premodern * early modernNoun
(en noun)- What the moderns could mean by their suppression of the final couplet's repeatings, cannot be conceiv'd
- Even though we moderns can never crawl inside the skin of the ancient and think and feel as he did we must as historians make the attempt.