corequisite

English

Etymology

From co- +‎ requisite.

Noun

corequisite (plural corequisites)

  1. (education) A course that must be or can be taken concurrently with a given course.
    Coordinate term: prerequisite
  2. Any of a set of things that require each other.
    Coordinate term: prerequisite
    • 2011, Frank Tsui, Orlando Karam, Essentials of Software Engineering, page 332:
      These three fix releases are corequisites of each other and must be applied together for all the fixes to work.

Usage notes

Much less common than prerequisite.[1]

References

  1. ^ (corequisite*75), prerequisite at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
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