PHENOMENON
\fɪnˈɒmɪnən], \fɪnˈɒmɪnən], \f_ɪ_n_ˈɒ_m_ɪ_n_ə_n]\
Definitions of PHENOMENON
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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An appearance; anything visible; whatever, in matter or spirit, is apparent to, or is apprehended by, observation; as, the phenomena of heat, light, or electricity; phenomena of imagination or memory.
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That which strikes one as strange, unusual, or unaccountable; an extraordinary or very remarkable person, thing, or occurrence; as, a musical phenomenon.
By Oddity Software
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An appearance; anything visible; whatever, in matter or spirit, is apparent to, or is apprehended by, observation; as, the phenomena of heat, light, or electricity; phenomena of imagination or memory.
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That which strikes one as strange, unusual, or unaccountable; an extraordinary or very remarkable person, thing, or occurrence; as, a musical phenomenon.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. A symptom; an occurrence of any sort, whether ordinary or extraordinary, in relation to a disease. 2. Any unusual fact or occurrence.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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An appearance: something as it is perceived (not necessarily as it really is): an observed result: a remarkable or unusual appearance:-pl. PHENOMENA.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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An extraordinary and unexpected event. In Medicine, it means any change, appreciable by our senses, which supervenes in an organ or function :-as the phenomena, of the circulation, respiration, &c. It is used in pathology, synonymously with symptom.
By Robley Dunglison
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Any occurrence or manifestation, especially one that is unusual or significant.
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A symptom of disease.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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