adjective
concurrent
Meeting or intersecting at a single point.
The three lines were concurrent at a single point.
Etymology
The Latin verb means to run together or meet. In geometry, concurrent lines do exactly that: their separate paths meet at one shared point.
More examples
- The diagram showed concurrent diagonals.
- The triangle's medians are concurrent.
- Students located the point at which the concurrent lines met.
Forms
concurrent
Similar words
- intersecting
- Intersecting lines meet; concurrent lines all meet at the same single point.
- parallel
- Parallel lines in a plane do not meet; concurrent lines do.