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English Dictionary: Contemporaneous by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
contemporaneous
adj
  1. occurring in the same period of time; "a rise in interest rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in inflation"; "the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart"
    Synonym(s): contemporaneous, contemporary
  2. of the same period
    Synonym(s): coetaneous, coeval, contemporaneous
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Contemporaneous \Con*tem`po*ra"ne*ous\, a. [L. contemporaneus;
      con- + tempus time. See {Temporal}, and cf.
      {Contemporaneous}.]
      Living, existing, or occurring at the same time;
      contemporary.
  
               The great age of Jewish philosophy, that of Aben Esra,
               Maimonides, and Kimchi, had been contemporaneous with
               the later Spanish school of Arabic philosophy. --Milman
      -- {Con*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ness}, n.
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