Meaning of copresent | Babel Free

Definitions

Present along with others.

not-comparable

Examples

“Events that are so distant from each other that signals from one cannot reach⟳ the other within the time interval occupied by these events are not copresent. Thus, to take⟳ an example, a concert in Boston can be copresent with a soccer match⟳ in Sydney, but not with a soccer match⟳ on, say⟳, Alpha Orionis: the present⟳ as it is defined relative to the soccer match⟳ extends some ninety light⟳ minutes into space, and so includes Sydney, but not Alpha Orionis, which is several hundred light⟳ years away.”

“For most of human history, oral language was used for face-to-face communication where people were co-present with each other in space and time. But think⟳ about what happened when humans invented the technology of audio recording.”

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