# Concurrent Update Detection

> The ability to detect when two updates happened concurrently rather than one causally after the other.

Record: `lexicon:concurrent-update-detection`
Kind: capability
Layer: [Causality Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/causality-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-concurrent-update-detection

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Topological Ordering](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/topological-ordering.md) and before [Metadata Size](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/metadata-size.md).

## Category

- [Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/causality-ordering-distributed-time.md)

## Enabled by

- [Vector Clocks](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/vector-clocks.md)

## Linked from

- [Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-causality-ordering-distributed-time.md)