concurrence

Meeting of minds

Concurrence is agreement or alignment.

When events happen in concurrence, they occur simultaneously.

When people act in concurrence, they share the same view or purpose: The project moved forward with the concurrence of all departments.

In law, a concurrence is a judge's separate opinion agreeing with the court's decision but for different reasons.

The verb is concur.

agreement

accord

Harmony between parties

assentFormal expression of approval
consentVoluntary agreement given
consensusGeneral group agreement

approval · endorsement · ratification · affirmation · confirmation · acceptance · compact · covenant · understanding · arrangement

simultaneity

synchrony

Temporal coordination

coincidenceUnplanned matching of events
concomitanceSimultaneous existence or occurrence
parallelismMatching structural elements

contemporaneity · coexistence · overlap · synchronicity · timing · conjunction · correspondence

convergence

confluence

Meeting point of streams

intersectionPoint where paths meet
junctionPoint where things meet
meetingGathering for discussion

coalescence · merging · conflux · coming together · joining · unification · synthesis · crossroads · blending · integration

legal

opinion

Subjective personal belief

judgmentReasoned decision-making capacity
rulingFormal legal determination
benchShared seating surface

majority opinion · court decision · appellate

Categories

timesecond, minute, hour, day, seconds
affirmativesyes, yeah, yep, yup, absolutely
agreementagree, accord, yes, yeah, yep
in accordunity, harmony, agreement, concord, unison
agreement wordsyes, okay, agree, agreed, accord
criminal lawcrime, felony, misdemeanor, murder, robbery

Opposites

agreement/disagreement

concurrencedisagreement

Absence of shared opinion

dissent · discord · dissension · opposition · conflict

approval/disapproval

concurrencerejection

Denial of acceptance

disapproval · veto · refusal · denial · prohibition

temporal simultaneity

concurrenceasynchrony

Lack of temporal coordination

asynchronism · succession · sequence · disjunction · separation

Phrases

concurrent sentencesOverlapping punishment periods
concurrent powersPowers held by multiple governments
concurrency controlManaging simultaneous data access

Family

concurrent, concurrently, concurrency, concurrences

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