Current vs. Concurrent
Current and Concurrent Definitions
Current
Belonging to the present time; present-day
Current events.
Current leaders.
My current address.
Concurrent
Happening, existing, or done at the same time as something else
Dealing with concurrent crises.
Current
Being in progress now
Current negotiations.
Concurrent
Meeting or tending to meet at the same point; convergent
Concurrent lines.
Current
Commonly accepted or used; prevalent
Current fashions.
Current technology.
Concurrent
Being in accordance; harmonious
Are these decisions concurrent with university policy?.
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Current
Passing from one to another; circulating, as money or a rumor
Current bills and coins.
Concurrent
Happening at the same time; simultaneous.
Current
Running; flowing.
Concurrent
Belonging to the same period; contemporary.
Current
A steady, smooth onward flow or movement
A current of air from a fan.
A current of spoken words.
Concurrent
Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contributing to the same event or effect.
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Current
The part of a body of liquid or gas that has a continuous onward movement
Rowed out into the river's swift current.
Concurrent
Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects.
The concurrent jurisdiction of courts
Current
A general tendency, movement, or course.
Concurrent
(geometry) Meeting in one point.
Current
A flow of electric charge.
Concurrent
Running alongside one another on parallel courses; moving together in space.
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Current
The amount of electric charge flowing past a specified circuit point per unit time, usually expressed in amperes.
Concurrent
Designed to run independently, rather than sequentially, using various mechanisms, such as threads, event loops or time-slicing.
Current
The generally unidirectional movement of a gas or fluid.
Concurrent
One who, or that which, concurs; a joint or contributory cause.
Current
The part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction, especially (oceanography) nocap=a.
Concurrent
One pursuing the same course, or seeking the same objects; hence, a rival; an opponent.
Current
(electricity) the amount of electric charge flowing in each unit of time.
Concurrent
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.
Current
A tendency or a course of events
Concurrent
One who accompanies a sheriff's officer as witness.
Current
Existing or occurring at the moment.
Current events
Current leaders
Current negotiations
Concurrent
Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contributing to the same event or effect; coöperating.
I join with these laws the personal presence of the kings' son, as a concurrent cause of this reformation.
The concurrent testimony of antiquity.
Current
Generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment.
Current affairs
Current bills and coins
Current fashions
Concurrent
Conjoined; associate; concomitant; existing or happening at the same time.
There is no difference the concurrent echo and the iterant but the quickness or slowness of the return.
Changes . . . concurrent with the visual changes in the eye.
Current
(India) Electric; of or relating to electricity.
Current bill
Current shock
Concurrent
Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects; as, the concurrent jurisdiction of courts.
Current
(obsolete) Running or moving rapidly.
Concurrent
Meeting in one point.
Current
Running or moving rapidly.
Like the current fire, that rennethUpon a cord.
To chase a creature that was current thenIn these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.
Concurrent
One who, or that which, concurs; a joint or contributory cause.
To all affairs of importance there are three necessary concurrents . . . time, industry, and faculties.
Current
Now passing, as time; as, the current month.
Concurrent
One pursuing the same course, or seeking the same objects; hence, a rival; an opponent.
Menander . . . had no concurrent in his time that came near unto him.
Current
Passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating through the community; generally received; common; as, a current coin; a current report; current history.
That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt.
Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current.
His current value, which is less or more as men have occasion for him.
Concurrent
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.
Current
Commonly estimated or acknowledged.
Concurrent
Occurring or operating at the same time;
A series of coincident events
Current
Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.
O Buckingham, now do I play the touchTo try if thou be current gold indeed.
Current
A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; esp., the swiftest part of it; as, a current of water or of air; that which resembles a stream in motion; as, a current of electricity.
Two such silver currents, when they join,Do glorify the banks that bound them in.
The surface of the ocean is furrowed by currents, whose direction . . . the navigator should know.
Current
General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc.
Current
A flow of electricity through a conductor;
The current was measured in amperes
Current
A steady flow (usually from natural causes);
The raft floated downstream on the current
He felt a stream of air
Current
Dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas;
Two streams of development run through American history
Stream of consciousness
The flow of thought
The current of history
Current
Occurring in or belonging to the present time;
Current events
The current topic
Current negotiations
Current psychoanalytic theories
The ship's current position
