coeval
/kəʊˈiːv(ə)l
/adjective
Having the same age or date of origin; contemporary: these lavas were coeval with the volcanic activity...
- Armour for the lower legs was roughly coeval with that for the torso.
- That voice beckons you in with glimpses of a world where pleasure and pain are coeval and complementary, where love and loss walk hand in hand.
- Stratigraphically, the former precedes the latter, but chronologically they are supposed to be partly coeval!
noun
A person of roughly the same age as oneself; a contemporary: like so many of his coevals, he yearned for stability...
- The orchestra, founded in 1912, and Symphony 3 (1913-15, premiered 1917) are roughly coevals.
- He highlights recent compositions more than most of his 60's coevals, but these, too, are delivered as highly stylized, singsongy chants.
- We need to thank our stars that we are coevals of such starry-eyed idealists who are prepared to stake their lives on something that is not their immediate concern.
Derivatives
coevality
- What is missing from his notion of coevality is a hypothetical scene of common origin.
- We show that the characteristic function condition is equivalent to a simpler condition on the score spaces themselves, and introduce coevality to obtain weaker sufficient conditions.
- Using the coevality constraint for the formation of such close binaries, the derived source properties are used to constrain available pre-main-sequence tracks.
coevally
- An exhumation event, defined as the vertical displacement of rocks with respect to the surface, may have started coevally with the emplacement of the pluton.
- Having formed coevally, studying the inhabiting stars in these clusters can yield a great deal of information.
- Due to the coevally collected comprehensive socio-economic list of questions, the microcensus offers analysis options on various questions.
Origin
Early 17th century (as a noun): from late Latin coaevus, from co- 'jointly' + Latin aevum 'age'.