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PHENOMENON
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Irregular inflected form: phenomena
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("phenomenon" is a kind of...):
physical process; process (a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "phenomenon"):
natural phenomenon (all phenomena that are not artificial)
levitation (the phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means)
metempsychosis; rebirth (after death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body)
consequence; effect; event; issue; outcome; result; upshot (a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon)
chance; fortune; hazard; luck (an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another)
fortune; luck (an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome)
pulsation (a periodically recurring phenomenon that alternately increases and decreases some quantity)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A remarkable development
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("phenomenon" is a kind of...):
development (a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation)
Context examples:
Systems designed to elucidate facts about complex biological phenomena, usually in a less complex or theoretical test environment.
(Biological Model, NCI Thesaurus)
Extent to which the measurement correlates with an external criterion of the phenomenon under study.
(Criterion Validity, NCI Thesaurus)
A mental phenomenon occurring during sleep in which images, emotions, and thoughts are experienced with a sense of reality; occurs during REM sleep.
(Dreaming, NCI Thesaurus)
Cancer that is spread throughout the body, a metastatic phenomenon.
(Disseminated Malignant Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
Carcinoma that is spread throughout the body, a metastatic phenomenon.
(Disseminated Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Complications include autoimmune phenomena and cancer development.
(Common Variable Immunodeficiency, NCI Thesaurus)
Complex cellular phenomena occurring apart from cell division that support cell viability and differentiated cell function.
(Cell Growth Process, NCI Thesaurus)
What this phenomenon meant we could not imagine.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon.
(Effect, NCI Thesaurus)
The complex series of phenomena occurring after cell division and before cell death.
(Cell Growth, NCI Thesaurus)
