Meaning of OCCURRENCE
| Pronunciation: | | u'kuruns
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- [n] an event that happens
- [n] an instance of something occurring; "a disease of frequent occurrence"; "the occurrence (or presence) of life on other planets"
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| | Synonyms: | | happening, natural event |
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| | See Also: | | accident, accompaniment, alteration, appearance, avalanche, beginning, blow, bonanza, boom, break, burst, case, chance event, change, collapse, computer error, conclusion, concomitant, contact, contingency, convergence, co-occurrence, crash, destiny, disappearance, discharge, ending, episode, error, eruption, event, eventuality, example, experience, failure, fate, finish, fire, flare-up, flash, fortuity, impinging, incident, instance, interruption, juncture, manna from heaven, marvel, miracle, modification, motion, movement, news event, occasion, outbreak, outburst, periodic event, presence, recurrent event, reversal, reverse, setback, sound, striking, success, thing, trouble, union, wonder | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Oc*cur"rence\, n. [Cf. F. occurrence. See {Occur}.]
1. A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway
collision.
Voyages detain the mind by the perpetual occurrence
and expectation of something new. --I. Watts.
2. Any incident or event; esp., one which happens without
being designed or expected; as, an unusual occurrence, or
the ordinary occurrences of life.
All the occurrence of my fortune. --Shak.
Syn: See {Event}.
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| | Related Terms: | | accessibility, actual presence, adventure, affair, apparition, appearance, appearing, arising, availability, avatar, being, being here, being there, chance, circumstance, coming, coming into being, coming-forth, condition, conjuncture, contingency, development, disclosure, emergence, emergency, ens, entity, epiphany, episode, esse, essence, event, eventuality, exigency, existence, experience, exposure, fact, forthcoming, frequency, go, hap, happening, happenstance, hereness, immanence, immediacy, incarnation, incidence, incident, indwellingness, inherence, instance, issuance, juncture, life, likelihood, manifestation, materiality, materialization, materializing, matter, matter of fact, occasion, opening, particular, pass, phenomenon, physical presence, presence, presentation, rate, reality, realization, revelation, rise, rising, showing, showing forth, situation, spiritual presence, state, subsistence, substantiality, theophany, thereness, thing, turn of events, ubiety, unfolding, unfoldment, whereness |
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