English Explanatory Dictionary

concomitant

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Accompanying; conjoining; attending; concurrent.
  2. Of or relating to the grammatical aspect which expresses that a secondary action is occurring simultaneously to the primary action of the statement.
noun
  1. Something happening or existing at the same time.
  2. An invariant homogeneous polynomial in the coefficients of a form, a covariant variable, and a contravariant variable.

Pronunciation

/kənˈkɒmɪtənt/ /kənˈkɑmətənt/ en-us-concomitant.ogg /kənˈkɒmətənt/ /kənˈkɔmətənt/ [kənˈkɔ̟mətənt]

Word forms

concomitant concomitants

Etymology

First attested 1607; from Middle French concomitant, from Latin concomitāns, the present participle of concomitor (“to accompany”), from con- (“together”) + comitor (“to accompany”), from comes (“companion”).

Synonyms

accompanying adjoining attendant incidental divariant accompaniment co-occurrence

Related words

concomitance concomitantly concomitate
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