Phenomenon

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  • noun. An occurrence, circumstance, or fact that is perceptible by the senses.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An unusual, significant, or unaccountable fact or occurrence; a marvel.
  • noun. A remarkable or outstanding person; a paragon. synonym: wonder.
  • noun. In the philosophy of Kant, an object as it is perceived by the senses, as opposed to a noumenon.
  • noun. An observable event.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In philosophy, an appearance or immediate object of experience, as distinguished from a thing in itself.
  • noun. In science, a fact directly observed, being either
  • noun. an individual circumstance or occurrence, such as the emergence of a temporary star, or more usually
  • noun. a regular kind of fact observed on certain kinds of occasion, such as the electrical sparks seen in combing the hair of some persons in cold, dry weather.
  • noun. Ay extraordinary occurrence or fact in nature; something strange and uncommon; a prodigy; a very remarkable personage or performer.
  • noun. Any physiological or pathological change apparent to the senses.
  • noun. Diminution of the Achilles tendon reflex in sciatica.
  • noun. An obsolete form of phenomenon.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. See phenomenon.
  • noun. An appearance; anything visible; whatever, in matter or spirit, is apparent to, or is apprehended by, observation
  • noun. That which strikes one as strange, unusual, or unaccountable; an extraordinary or very remarkable person, thing, or occurrence.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An observable fact or occurrence or a kind of observable fact or occurrence.
  • noun. Appearance; a perceptible aspect of something that is mutable.
  • noun. A fact or event considered very unusual, curious, or astonishing by those who witness it.
  • noun. A wonderful or very remarkable person or thing.
  • noun. An experienced object whose constitution reflects the order and conceptual structure imposed upon it by the human mind (especially by the powers of perception and understanding).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a remarkable development
  • noun. any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning
  • Word Usage
    "_If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs, and an instance in which it does not occur, have every circumstance in common save one, that one occurring only in the former; the circumstance in which alone the two instances differ, is the effect, or cause, or a necessary part of the cause, of the phenomenon_."
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