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criminal commitment

the confinement of people in mental institutions either because they have been found not guilty by reason of insanity or to establish their competency to stand trial as responsible defendants.

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January 31st 2025

concomitance

concomitance

n.

1. the co-occurrence of two or more phenomena, especially such that the phenomena are essentially different manifestations of a single underlying reality. For example, a symbol and its meaning may be concomitant. According to Jungian psychology, synchronous events may be concomitant in this way (see synchronicity).

2. in statistics and experimental psychology, a co-occurrence between a response or outcome variable and a variable other than a predictor of interest. —concomitant adj.