contemporaneous

English

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /kənˌtɛmpəˈreɪniəs/, /ˌkɒntɛmpəˈreɪniəs/
• (US) IPA: /kənˌtɛmpəˈreɪniəs/

  Rhymes: -eɪniəs

Adjective

contemporaneous (not comparable)

1. Existing or created in the same period of time. ^syn.
   • Network Control Program on Wikipedia

     The Network Control Program (NCP) provided the middle layers of the protocol stack running on host computers of the ARPANET, the predecessor to the modern Internet. Although sometimes the abbreviation NCP is mistakenly expanded to Network Control Protocol, this term is not found in the contemporaneous documentation.

   Look in other contemporaneous works to see whether that idea was common then.

Usage notes

• For events which occur at precisely the same time, simultaneous is used.

Synonyms

• (existing or created in the same period of time ^def.): coeval, cotemporal

Translations

existing or created in the same period of time

Bulgarian: едновременен (bg) French: contemporain (fr) m.

Manx: co-emshiragh (gv) Spanish: contemporáneo (es) m.