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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

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