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A common right; coincidence of equal powers; as, a concurrence of jurisdiction in two different courts.

Conjoined; associate; concomitant; existing or happening at the same time. There is no difference the concurrent echo and the iterant but the quickness or slowness of the return. Bacon. Changes . . . concurrent with the visual changes in the eye. Tyndall.

A rearrangement or concentration of the different constituents of one or more substances into a distinct and definite compound of greater complexity and molecular weight, often resulting in an increase of density, as the condensation of oxygen into ozone, or of acetone into mesitylene. Condensation product (Chem.), a s…

in unit time through unit area of plate whose thickness is unity, when its opposite faces differ in temperature by one degree. J. D. Everett. -- Thermometic conductivity (Physics), the thermal conductivity when the unit of heat employed is the heat required to raise unit volume of the substance one degree.…

ze up. Shak. This is the fountain of all those bitter waters, of which, through a hundred different conduits, we have drunk. Burke.

A pulley for driving machines, etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters; a pulley having a conical shape.

A composition of different materials. [Obs.] A new confection of mold. Bacon.

confession of faith. Confessional equality, equality before the law of persons confessing different creeds.

To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse.

termine matters of common interest. The European powers strove to . . . accommodate their differences at the congress of Vienna. Alison.

Congenital; existing from birth. "Connate notions." South. A difference has been made by some; those diseases or conditions which are dependent on original conformation being called congenital; while the diseases of affections that may have supervened during gestation or delivery are called connate. Dunglison.…

Without conscience; indifferent to conscience; unscrupulous. Conscienceless and wicked patrons. Hookre.

In a manner or to a degree not trifling or unimportant; greatly; much. The breeds . . . differ considerably from each other. Darwin.

iver, in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another, or into a different state, with the sense of fixedness in that state, or permanence of possession; as, to consign the body to the grave. At the day of general account, good men are to be consigned over to another state. Atterbury.…

ons takes place when one class of facts coincides with an induction obtained from another different class. Whewell.

ony of all parts of a complex thing among themselves, or of the same thing with itself at different times; the harmony of conduct with profession; congruity; correspondence; as, the consistency of laws, regulations, or judicial decisions; consistency of opinions; consistency of conduct or of character. That consistency…

To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation.

ngly, and is carries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest, has a meaning quite different. Atterbury.

A name applied loosely to several plants of different genera, esp. the comfrey.

, as the number 10, or any numeral. -- Arbitrary constant, an undetermined constant in a differential equation having the same value during all changes in the values of the variables.