| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | si·mul·ta·ne·ous |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  s  m l-t  n -s, s ml- |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Happening, existing, or done at the same time. See synonyms at contemporary. 2. Mathematics Containing variables for which there are values that can satisfy all the equations: simultaneous equations. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin simul, at the same time; see sem-1 in Appendix I + English -taneous (as in instantaneous). | | OTHER FORMS: | simul·tane·ous·ly —ADVERB
simul·tane·ous·ness, simul·ta·nei·ty (-t-n-t, -n-) —NOUN
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