Definition of "concomitant"

concomitant

/kənˈkɒmɪtənt/

adjective
not comparable
1. Accompanying; conjoining; attending; concurrent.
  Quotations
  It has therefore pleased our wise Creator to annex to several objects, and to the ideas which we receive from them, as also to several of our thoughts, a concomitant pleasure, […]
  1689, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding‎
  It is a difficulty to know what view one should adopt; she may drag on for two whole years; in that time her good fortune, with all its concomitant advantages, would be insured to her connexions, after which her death would be the most interesting thing possible, and make an astounding impression.
  1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], pages 5–6
  The visitors saw the measures taken immediately before, during, and after an "air raid", which included a gas and high-explosive bomb attack. The concomitant noise "effects" sounded grimly realistic.
  1939 June, “What the Railways are Doing: London Transport Air Raid Precautions”, in Railway Magazine, page 462
  The new technology on which super-industrialism is based, much of it blue-printed in American research laboratories, brings with it an inevitable acceleration of change in society and a concomitant speed-up of the pace of individual life as well.
  1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock: Bantam Books, page 41
  With technological improvement, therefore, it will become possible, in a succession of steady states, to have a larger and larger amount of capital equipment available to each representative worker in the economy, with a concomitant rise in productivity.
  2005, Alpha Chiang, Kevin Wainwright, Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics, 4th edition, McGraw-Hill International, page 501
2. (grammar) Of or relating to the grammatical aspect which expresses that a secondary action is occurring simultaneously to the primary action of the statement.
noun
plural concomitants
1. Something happening or existing at the same time.
  Quotations
  The reflection, that but the next day was to transport her far from London, had, in chasing distrust, with its natural concomitants, restraint and reserve, given a sweet and placid composure to her demeanour.
  1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter X, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 121
  It is also instructive to consider the relation of these dreams to anxiety dreams. In the dreams we have been discussing, a repressed wish has found a means of evading censorship—and the distortion which censorship involves. The invariable concomitant is that painful feelings are experienced in the dream.
  1900, Sigmund Freud, translated by James Strachey, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, page 301
  A major concomitant of the advent of diesel traction has been a vast increase in the amount of electrical equipment needing overhaul.
  1963 May, “Metamorphosis at Swindon Works”, in Modern Railways, page 337
  The declining commitment to place is thus related not to mobility per se, but to a concomitant of mobility- the shorter duration of place relationships.
  1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, page 93
2. (algebra) An invariant homogeneous polynomial in the coefficients of a form, a covariant variable, and a contravariant variable.

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