concomitant — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Accompanying; conjoining; attending; concurrent.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Synonyms

   accompanyingadjoiningattendantincidental

   Examples

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   It has therefore pleased our wise Creator to annex to several objects, and to the ideas which we receive from them, as also to several of our thoughts, a concomitant pleasure, […]

   It is a difficulty to know what view one should adopt; she may drag on for two whole years; in that time her good fortune, with all its concomitant advantages, would be insured to her connexions, after which her death would be the most interesting thing possible, and make an astounding impression.

   The visitors saw the measures taken immediately before, during, and after an "air raid", which included a gas and high-explosive bomb attack. The concomitant noise "effects" sounded grimly realistic.

   The new technology on which super-industrialism is based, much of it blue-printed in American research laboratories, brings with it an inevitable acceleration of change in society and a concomitant speed-up of the pace of individual life as well.

   With technological improvement, therefore, it will become possible, in a succession of steady states, to have a larger and larger amount of capital equipment available to each representative worker in the economy, with a concomitant rise in productivity.

2. Of or relating to the grammatical aspect which expresses that a secondary action is occurring simultaneously to the primary action of the statement.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

Noun

1. Something happening or existing at the same time.

   Synonyms

   accompanimentco-occurrence

   Examples

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   The reflection, that but the next day was to transport her far from London, had, in chasing distrust, with its natural concomitants, restraint and reserve, given a sweet and placid composure to her demeanour.

   It is also instructive to consider the relation of these dreams to anxiety dreams. In the dreams we have been discussing, a repressed wish has found a means of evading censorship—and the distortion which censorship involves. The invariable concomitant is that painful feelings are experienced in the dream.

   A major concomitant of the advent of diesel traction has been a vast increase in the amount of electrical equipment needing overhaul.

   The declining commitment to place is thus related not to mobility per se, but to a concomitant of mobility- the shorter duration of place relationships.

2. An invariant homogeneous polynomial in the coefficients of a form, a covariant variable, and a contravariant variable.

Adjective

1. occurring with or following as a consequence

   Synonyms

   attendantconsequentaccompanyingincidentalensuantresultantsequentcollateral

   Examples

   an excessive growth of bureaucracy, with attendant problems

   snags incidental to the changeover in management

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   attendant circumstances

   the period of tension and consequent need for military preparedness

   the ensuant response to his appeal

   the resultant savings were considerable

   collateral target damage from a bombing run

Noun

1. an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another

   Synonyms

   accompanimentattendantco-occurrence

   Broader terms

   happeningoccurrenceoccurrentnatural event