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2 definitions found 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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