simultaneity
IPA: saɪmʌɫtˈeɪnˈiʌti
noun
- The quality or state of being simultaneous; simultaneousness.
- (music) More than one complete musical texture occurring at the same time. This first appeared in the music of Charles Ives, and is common in the music of Conlon Nancarrow, and others.
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Examples of "simultaneity" in Sentences
- There are two concepts which I want to distinguish, and one I call simultaneity and the other instantaneousness.
- Canadian counterinsurgency doctrine not only echoes this theme, but fleshes it out - most notably by incorporating the idea of simultaneity:
- The basic structural fact about simultaneity is that the effects come before the causes in such structures, or, the ground comes before the figure.
- To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.
- (In general relativity, in which spacetime is curved, we need to go even further — the notion of simultaneity is not simply frame-dependent, it is completely ill-defined.)
- Although I think the point I made about the illusion of simultaneity is obvious, here is a simple test which can be observed, and shows that the possibility of illusion cannot be ruled out.
- Fifth, Goldblatt needs to reread Stump and Kretzmann's article on eternity, since he seems to have missed the fact that Stump and Kretzmann identify several distinct senses of the term 'simultaneity' -- despite the fact that it's the primary point of the article.
- It did not happen with perfect simultaneity, which is a prime reason that the economy shows a pattern of booms and busts — for a short time, the explosion of the internet actually increased demand for plain old telephone service — people got second numbers for internet connections, internet connection calls stretched out for hours and hours, placing a serious strain on the phone network (but also boosting the utilization and therefore the productivity of the old network).
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