different between concordant vs concomitant

English

Alternative forms

• concordaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

French concordant, from Latin concordans, present participle of concordare. See concord.

Adjective

concordant (comparative more concordant, superlative most concordant)

1. Agreeing or harmonious; consistent (with).

   Synonyms: consonant, in keeping with

   • 1918, Jagdish Chandra Bose, Life Movement in Plants

     Even in the case of direct effect, different factors, such as light, temperature, turgor, and so on, are undergoing independent variations; it may thus happen that their reactions may sometimes be concordant and at other times discordant.

   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica

     Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves.

2. (geology) Intruding parallel to the bedding.
3. (mathematics) Preserving the sign.

Antonyms

• discordant
• nonconcordant

Translations

French

Verb

concordant

1. present participle of concorder

Adjective

concordant (feminine singular concordante, masculine plural concordants, feminine plural concordantes)

1. concordant

Further reading

• “concordant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

From French concordant.

Adjective

concordant m or n (feminine singular concordant?, masculine plural concordan?i, feminine and neuter plural concordante)

1. concordant

Declension

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?n?k?m?t?nt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k?n?k??m?t?nt/

Adjective

concomitant (not comparable)

1. Accompanying; conjoining; attending; concurrent. [from early 17th c.]

   Synonyms: accompanying, adjoining, attendant, incidental

   • 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, pg. 41:

     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.

   • 2005, Alpha Chiang and Kevin Wainwright, Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics (4th ed.), McGraw-Hill International, p. 501

     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.

Translations

Noun

concomitant (plural concomitants)

1. Something happening or existing at the same time.

   Synonyms: accompaniment, co-occurrence

   • 1900, James Strachey (translator), Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, pg. 301:

     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.

   • 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, pg.93

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

Synonyms

• divariant

Related terms

• concomitance
• concomitantly
• concomitate

References

• “concomitant”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin concomit?ns, the present participle of Latin concomitor (“I accompany”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.k?.mi.t??/

Adjective

concomitant (feminine singular concomitante, masculine plural concomitants, feminine plural concomitantes)

1. concomitant

Further reading

• “concomitant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).