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contemporaneous, a.|kənˌtɛmpəˈreɪniːəs|
Also erron. cot-.
[f. L. contemporāne-us contemporary (f. con- together + tempus, tempor- time; cf. late L. temporāneus timely) + -ous.]
1. Belonging to the same time or period; existing or occurring at the same time. Const. with.
1656Blount Glossogr., Contemporaneous, Contemporary, Contemporal, that is in one and the same time or age. 1730–6Bailey (folio), Contemporaneous, living both at the same time, or in the same age. [Not in Johnson 1755.] 1758I. Lyons Fluxions Pref. 6, I.. consider the Ratio of the Fluxions as the same as that of the contemporaneous Increments. 1843J. H. Newman Miracles 139 Strictly contemporaneous testimony. 1855Baden Powell Ess. 121 Instances where the phenomena are cotemporaneous. 1861Goschen For. Exch. 114 The high rate of interest, which is generally contemporaneous with a drain of specie.
b. Covering the same space of time.
1857H. Reed Lect. Eng. Poets iii. 82 The history of English poetry is contemporaneous with that of the language.
2. Originated at the same time or during the same historical or geological period; of the same age.
1833Lyell Princ. Geol. III. p. xiii, Volcanic rocks contemporaneous with the sedimentary strata of three of the above periods. 1863― Antiq. Man 15 Tumuli of the stone period believed to be contemporaneous with the mounds. 1874Parker Goth. Archit. i. iii. 80 Plain groined vaults without ribs..contemporaneous with the barrel vaults. |