Definition of "concurrent" []

• Happening at the same time as something else. See Synonyms at contemporary. (adjective)
• Operating or acting in conjunction with another. (adjective)
• Meeting or tending to meet at the same point; convergent. (adjective)
• Being in accordance; harmonious. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "It was simply a clerical error in terms of putting the word "concurrent" in the order, in the sentence before it said that she shall serve it upon release."
• "One way of speeding things up, being pioneered by Coram, is what it calls "concurrent planning"."
• "It's what we call our concurrent users or CCU, for short."