concurrency
noun/kənˈkɜrənsi/
Frequency rank: #18,793 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
the state of multiple processes or events happening or being executed at the same time.
Example sentence
The system was designed to handle concurrency so that multiple users could access the database at the same time.
Synonyms & related words
- simultaneity
- parallelism
- overlap
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