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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Concurrence \Con*cur"rence\, n. [F., competition, equality of
rights, fr LL concurrentia competition.]
1. The act of concurring; a meeting or coming together;
union; conjunction; combination.
We have no other measure but our own ideas, with the
concurence of other probable reasons, to persuade
us --Locke.
2. A meeting of minds; agreement in opinion; union in design
or act -- implying joint approbation.
Tarquin the Proud was expelled by the universal
concurrence of nobles and people. --Swift.
3. Agreement or consent, implying aid or contribution of
power or influence; co["o]peration.
We collect the greatness of the work and the
necessity of the divine concurrence to it --Rogers.
An instinct that works us to its own purposes
without our concurrence. --Burke.
4. A common right coincidence of equal powers; as a
concurrence of jurisdiction in two different courts.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
concurrence
n 1: agreement of results or opinions
2: acting together as of agents or circumstances or events
3: a state of cooperation [syn: {meeting of minds}]
4: the temporal property of two things happening at the same
time; "the interval determining the coincidence gate is
adjustable" [syn: {coincidence}, {conjunction}, {co-occurrence}]
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