Occurrence

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Occurrence \Oc*cur"rence\, n. [Cf. F. occurrence. See {Occur}.]
     1. A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway
        collision.
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              Voyages detain the mind by the perpetual occurrence


              and expectation of something new.     --I. Watts.
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     2. Any event or incident; esp., one which happens without
        being designed or expected; as, an unusual occurrence, or
        the ordinary occurrences of life.
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              All the occurrence of my fortune.     --Shak.
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     Syn: See {Event}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  occurrence
       n 1: an event that happens [syn: {happening}, {natural event}]
       2: an instance of something occurring; "a disease of frequent
          occurrence"; "the occurrence (or presence) of life on
          other planets"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  92 Moby Thesaurus words for "occurrence":
     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