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DictionaryRoot: currere
Latin

currere

run

Forms

  • curr-
  • curs- — Latin stem used in forms referring to having run.

Origin

Reconstructed Proto-Indo-European *kers-, ‘run.’

Note

Running became a metaphor for flow and the course of events.

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adjective

concurrent

kun-KUR-ent/kənˈkɜːrənt/

Existing or operating at the same time.

Two concurrent batches simmer in separate pots on the stove.

Two adjacent small cooking pots simmer simultaneously on the same two-burner stove, both steaming at once, no text.
Etymology
conLatintogether, with; sometimes thoroughly
+currLatinrun
+entLatindoing or being something

Literally 'running together,' concurrent applies that image to things proceeding alongside one another in time. They need not agree or cooperate; the selected sense concerns their simultaneous occurrence.

In context

Talks at Google9:22
ALEX GARLAND: What Natalie has as an actor is she's got these two concurrent things going on at the same time.
Annihilation | Alex Garland | Talks at Google

More examples

  • The conference offers concurrent sessions, so we must choose one.
  • She serves concurrent sentences for the two offenses.
  • The server handles hundreds of concurrent requests.

Forms

concurrently adverb — At the same time as something else.

concurrency noun — The state of happening at the same time.

Similar words

simultaneous
Often stresses identical timing rather than simply overlapping periods.
contemporaneous
Usually places events within the same period, especially historically.