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simultaneity|sɪməltəˈniːɪtɪ|
[f. next: see -ity, and cf. F. simultanéité (1754), Sp. -eidad, Pg. -eidade.]
1. The quality or fact of being simultaneous; occurrence at the same time. Also spec. in Art, the simultaneous representation of several views of the same object.
1652N. Culverwel Light of Nature 118 There's no succession in God,..there's a compleat simultaneity in all his knowledge. 1798A. F. M. Willich Elem. Crit. Philos. 46 All the predicates of time, simultaneity, succession, &c...belong to it [sc. a sensible object]. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) II. 546 By the supposition, this asserted simultaneity is false. 1855Grove Corr. Phys. Forces (ed. 3) 13 The actual priority of cause to effect has been doubted, and their simultaneity argued with much ability. 1893Ball Story of Sun 35 We may..suppose that they [sc. observations] have been made with absolute simultaneity. 1957Encycl. Brit. XVII. 64/2 Both the Cubists and the Italian Futurists used a device known as simultaneity—the practice of combining various parts of an object, or profiles of face and figure within a design concept. 1980Illustr. London News Mar. 58/3 The Italian Futurists took up the notion of simultaneity in a relatively simple-minded way.
2. A simultaneous attack. rare—1.
1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xix. vii. (1872) VIII. 230 He stands now elaborately divided into Three groups against those Three simultaneities. |