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A thing or being, event or process, perceptible through senses; or a fact or occurrence thereof.

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(by extension) A knowable thing or event (eg by inference, especially in science)

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An electromagnetic phenomenon.

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A kind or type of phenomenon (sense 1 or 2)

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A volcanic eruption is an impressive phenomenon.

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Appearance; a perceptible aspect of something that is mutable.

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A fact or event considered very unusual, curious, or astonishing by those who witness it.

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A wonderful or very remarkable person or thing.

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(chiefly Kantian idealism) 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).

There are UFO groups which investigate the UFO phenomenon.

The insect showed the phenomenon of long-lived luminescence.

In the early 1980s, US doctors began to notice a strange phenomenon.

There was a phenomenon to suggest ways in which they could investigate the activities that were going on.

One interesting phenomenon in spider-life seems to be directly and certainly traceable to this influence, and that is mimicry of ants.

This unique phenomenon will pass as we learn to cope with vast amounts of data.

The banshee is perhaps connected with ancestral or house spirits; the Wild Huntsman, the Gabriel hounds, the Seven Whistlers, &c., are traceable to some actual phenomenon; but the great mass of British goblindom cannot now be traced back to savage or barbarous analogues.

As to the nature of histogenesis, nothing more can be said than that it appears to be a phenomenon similar to embryonic growth, though limited to certain spots.

Emigration is a comparatively new phenomenon in Sardinia, which began only in 1896, but is gaining ground.

To this phenomenon he gave the name of dimorphobiosis.

In this case also the differentiation of leaf-bundles, which typically begins at the base of the leaf and extends upwards into the leaf and downwards into the stem, is the first phenomenon in the development of vascular tissue, and is seen at a higher level than the formation of a stele.

The happenings will be assessed in relation to their coherence with another observed phenomenon.

This phenomenon occurs among species found at high elevations, among others found in arid or desert regions, and in some cases in the female sex only, the male being winged and the female wingless.

The phenomenon of emigration in Sicily cannot altogether be explained by low wages, which have risen, though prices have done the same.

The phenomenon was quite common between 9.30 A.M.

But the phenomenon was not obscure.

There are unifying principles that can be used to understand diverse ecological genetic phenomenon.

The phenomenon of seasonal dimorphism is of especial moment for the plankton dwellers.

It addresses the causes and mechanisms underlying the phenomenon.

Mechanism was the unalterable connexion of every phenomenon a with other phenomena b, c, d, either as following or preceding it; mechanism was the inexorable form into which the events of this world are cast, and by which they are connected.

But however small the units it takes, we feel that to take any unit disconnected from others, or to assume a beginning of any phenomenon, or to say that the will of many men is expressed by the actions of any one historic personage, is in itself false.

This website combines the power and social benefits of the DogPile search engine, along with the hilarity of the LOLCats phenomenon.

This phenomenon is connected with the fact that incandescent bodies, especially in rarefied gases, throw off or emit electrons or gaseous negative ions.

In Spain and North Africa persecution created that strange and significant phenomenon Maranism or crypto-Judaism, a public acceptance of Islam or Christianity combined with a private fidelity to the rites of Judaism.

In the East, mysticism is not so much a specific phenomenon as a natural deduction from the dominant philosophic systems, and the normal expression of religious feeling in the lands in which it appears.

Up to this time the phenomenon of fermentation was considered strange and obscure.

He found himself looked upon with curiosity as a precocious phenomenon, a "made man," an intellectual machine set to grind certain tunes.

The eggs of locusts may remain for years in the ground before hatching; and there may thus arise the peculiar phenomenon of some species of insect appearing in vast numbers in a locality where it has not been seen for several years.

No phenomenon was without a name, no problem without a solution.

The corresponding phenomenon in the case of vapours is well known.

Another curious phenomenon may fitly be referred to in this connexion, viz.

There is, in all probability, a connexion between this phenomenon and the peculiarities of positive and negative brush and other discharge in air.

Could they be the result of a single, giant meteor crashing to Earth or something else, an entirely new phenomenon?

Joining fascism and bureaucratic socialism together into a single phenomenon admirably suited the needs of the cold war.

Many materials behave both like elastic solids and viscous fluids, a phenomenon referred to as viscoelastic properties.

Patients who develop the condition almost always suffer from Raynaud's phenomenon (blood vessel spasm triggered by cold weather) first.

They will study the phenomenon of quark color superconductivity, a new state of matter thought to occur in the center of neutron stars.

It was not my purpose to write a scholarly treatise about the phenomenon of the hefted flocks.

The beginning of definite knowledge on the phenomenon of fermentation may be dated from the time of Antony Leeuwenhoek, who in 1680 designed a microscope sufficiently powerful to render yeast cells and bacteria visible; and a description of these organisms, accompanied by diagrams, was sent to the Royal Society of London.

In his Memoire sur le refraction des corps solides (1741) he was the first to give a theoretical explanation of the phenomenon which is witnessed when a body passes from one fluid to another more dense in a direction not perpendicular to the surface which separates the two fluids.

Elsewhere at Cnossus, in the smaller palace to the west, the royal villa and the town houses, we find the evidence of a similar catastrophe followed by an imperfect recovery, and the phenomenon meets us again at Palaikastro and other early settlements in the east of Crete.

Indeed, as has been seen, they appropriate the entire personale of the Bible from Adam, Seth, Abel, Enos and Pharaoh to Jesus and John, a phenomenon which bears witness to the close relations of the Mandaean doctrine both with Judaism and Christianity - not the less close because they were relations of hostility.

Curiosity impelled him to remain and watch the progress of such a novel phenomenon; but curiosity was changed into dismay as the terrific character of the phenomenon unfolded itself.

This was probably the same phenomenon to which I have referred, which is especially observed in the morning, but also at other times, and even by moonlight.

While Cook was speculating on the cause of this phenomenon, and was in the act of ordering out the boats to take soundings, the " Endeavour " struck heavily, and fell over so much that the guns, spare cables, and other heavy gear had at once to be thrown overboard to lighten the ship. As day broke, attempts were made to float the vessel off with the morning tide; but these were unsuccessful.

The promulgation of this truncated constitution was greeted by a furious agitation, culminating in September in a general strike, rightly described as the most remarkable political phenomenon of modern times.

The emergence of Satan as a definite supernatural personality, the head or prince of the world of evil spirits, is entirely a phenomenon of post-exilian Judaism.

In the Positive state, inherent volition or external volition and inherent force or abstraction personified have both disappeared from men's minds, and the explanation of a phenomenon means a reference of it, by way of succession or resemblance, to some other phenomenon, - means the establishment of a relation between the given fact and some more general fact.

Other Arctic observers have failed to find any trace of this phenomenon.

This, however, did not lead him to doubt the truth of those reported by others - a fact that is somewhat surprising when we reflect that the phenomenon caused him much disquiet and perplexity.