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- Dictionarycontemporary/kənˈtɛmp(ə)r(ər)i/
adjective
- 1. living or occurring at the same time: "the event was recorded by a contemporary historian"
- 2. belonging to or occurring in the present: "the tension and complexities of our contemporary society" Similar Opposite
noun
- 1. a person or thing living or existing at the same time as another: "he was a contemporary of Darwin"
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5 days ago · Recent News. democracy, literally, rule by the people. The term is derived from the Greek dēmokratia, which was coined from dēmos (“people”) and kratos (“rule”) in the middle of the 5th century bce to denote the political systems then existing in some Greek city-states, notably Athens.
19 hours ago · The contemporary Gothic, drawing on an already fragmented and heterogenic artistic tradition, is less a genre than a vestigial type of writing that resuscitates older horrors and formulas and filters them through the echo chambers of a modern preoccupation with the social value of transgressive literature.
5 days ago · Definitions of modern-day. adjective. characteristic of the present. “the role of computers in modern-day medicine”. synonyms: contemporary. modern. belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages.
5 days ago · science, any system of knowledge that is concerned with the physical world and its phenomena and that entails unbiased observations and systematic experimentation. In general, a science involves a pursuit of knowledge covering general truths or the operations of fundamental laws.
3 days ago · Other and related topics of contemporary research include debates between basic knowledge, the nature of evidence, the value of knowledge, epistemic luck, virtue epistemology, the role of intuitions in justification, and treating knowledge as a primitive concept.
4 days ago · Artificial intelligence (AI), the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings. The term is frequently applied to the project of developing systems with the ability to reason, discover meaning, generalize, or learn from past experiences.
1 day ago · By Philip Cu Unjieng. For close to three decades now, the film Twister (1996), directed by Jan de Bont and starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton, has helped define what the modern disaster movie is like. It was edge-of-the-seat action, taking us into the eye of these tornadoes while helping make weather people and meteorologists cool.
