Right now, most of our cities would be as hard-pressed as Mumbai was to deal with several simultaneous attacks.
Some handle only a single pattern e.g., a melody, a rhythm; others handle several simultaneous patterns.
Entrelacement, a literary technique in which several simultaneous stories are interlaced in one larger narrative.
The audience, free to wander between several simultaneous performances on the Armory's vast open floor, seemed to become part of the choreography itself.
In the early 1950s there were several simultaneous developments in the audio industry that ushered in the modern era of sound in the theatre.
In contrast, the human brain performs at low speed but in parallel rather than in sequence, producing several simultaneous results that can be compared (see also artificial intelligence).
If fast throughput is needed, the transport layer may establish several simultaneous paths in the network and send different parts of the data over each path.
Like his father, he carried out several simultaneous campaigns, using generals in the field who acted independently but who were subject to his orders.
One possibility is for Mr. Obama to make several simultaneous nominations, in effect daring Republicans to find specific objections in multiple instances.
He will face several simultaneous and potentially conflicting tasks, including consoling widows and other survivors of the dead firefighters and trying to meet their needs and demands, and boosting morale, which has sagged in recent years.
They were supposed to herald a much-needed new day for the 40 million people of Sudan, where over the past two decades hundreds of thousands have been killed in several simultaneous rebellions.
