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SCENARIO
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A postulated sequence of possible events
Example:
planners developed several scenarios in case of an attack
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("scenario" is a kind of...):
assumption; premise; premiss (a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An outline or synopsis of a play (or, by extension, of a literary work)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("scenario" is a kind of...):
book; playscript; script (a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance)
Derivation:
scenarist (a writer of screenplays)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A setting for a work of art or literature
Example:
the scenario is France during the Reign of Terror
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("scenario" is a kind of...):
scene; setting (the context and environment in which something is set)
Context examples:
In a business-as-usual scenario where heat-trapping carbon emissions are left uncontrolled, the glacier loss could extend to two-thirds, exposing the black rock of the ice-covered mountains.
(Bulk of Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2100, SciDev.Net)
That's the scenario scientists have hypothesized.
(Rocks at asteroid impact site record first day of dinosaur extinction, National Science Foundation)
But the researchers wanted to try and replicate those results on a larger scale that more closely mimicked commercial production scenarios.
(Antibiotic Alternative Scores Well in Second Round of Swine Trials, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
In both scenarios, running at medium speed produced vibrations making the animal's wings flap.
(Scientific study suggests dinosaurs flapped their wings as they ran, Wikinews)
The new observations do not support this scenario, finding that dark matter is "colder" than it would have to be in the warm dark matter alternative theory.
(Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Find Dark Matter in Small Clumps, NASA)
This scenario is supported by Voyager 2 images from 1989 that show a large impact crater on Proteus, almost large enough to have shattered the moon.
(Tiny Neptune Moon Spotted by Hubble May Have Broken from Larger Moon, NASA)
Nonetheless, its close approach to Earth is an opportunity to test the ability of a growing global observing network to communicate and coordinate its optical and radar observations in a real scenario.
(Asteroid Tracking Network Observes Close Approach, NASA)
This hellish scenario exists on the permanent daysides of a type of planet found outside our solar system dubbed an "ultrahot Jupiter."
(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)
The special report looks at the climate change scenario for Brazil and how coastal cities could be impacted by global warming.
(Brazil's coastal cities more vulnerable to climate change, Agência Brasil)
The researchers worked out the chemical pathways and thermodynamics involved in multiple scenarios on Earth to see if they could produce enough energy to turn phosphorous into phosphine.
(Poisonous Earthly Molecule May Be Sign of Extraterrestrial Life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
