Meaning of phenomenon | Babel Free

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1. A thing or being, event or process, perceptible through senses; or a fact or occurrence thereof.
2. A knowable thing or event (e.g. by inference, especially in science).
   broadly
3. a natural fact or event that is seen or happens regularly or frequently. Magnetic attraction is an interesting phenomenon. fenomeen ظاهِرَه феномен fenômeno jev das Phänomen fænomen φαινόμενοfenómeno nähtus, ilming پدیده ilmiö phénomèneתופעה परिघटना fenomen, pojava jelenség fenomena fyrirbæri fenomeno 現象 현상 reiškinys, fenomenas fenomens; parādība fenomena verschijnselfenomenzjawisko, fenomen پيښه (پديده fenómeno fenomen феномен jav pojav fenomen fenomen, företeelse ปรากฏการณ์ olgu, olay 現象 рі...
4. A kind or type of phenomenon (sense 1 or 2).
5. very unusual; remarkable. a phenomenal amount of money. fenomenaal ظَواهِري، غَيْر عادي، ضَخْم، هائِل феноменален fenomenal úžasný phänomenal utrolig εκπληκτικός, απίθανοςfenomenal, extraordinario harukordne خارق العاده؛ چشمگیر ilmiömäinen phénoménal בִּלתִי רָגִיל असाधारण, अपूर्व sjajan, izvanredan rendkívüli luar biasa einstæður, undraverður fenomenale, straordinario 驚くべき 놀랄 만한 nepaprastas, fenomenalus fenomenāls luar biasa fenomenaalfenomenalniezwykły غير معمو لى خارق العاده، دپيښي،پيښې ته...
6. Appearance; a perceptible aspect of something that is mutable.
7. fenomenaal بِصورَة غَيْر عادِيَّه феноменално fenomenalmente úžasně phänomenal fænomenalt; utroligt εκπληκτικάfenomenalmente fenomenaalselt بطور خارق العاده ilmiömäisesti phénoménalement בְּאוֹפֶן בִּלתִי רָגִיל असाधारणता से, अपूर्वता से fenomenalno rendkívüli módon, fenomenálisan secara luar biasa með einstæðum hætti in modo fenomenale 現象的に 경이적으로 nepaprastai fenomenāli luar biasa fenomenaalfenomenalt nadzwyczajnie په خارقالعاده fenomenalmente fenomenal феноменально pozoruhodne izredno fenome...
8. A fact or event considered very unusual, curious, or astonishing by those who witness it.
9. An occurrence, circumstance, or fact that is perceptible by the senses.
10. A wonderful or very remarkable person or thing.
11. pl. phe·nom·e·nons a. An unusual, significant, or unaccountable fact or occurrence; a marvel.
12. An experienced object whose constitution reflects the order and conceptual structure imposed upon it by the human mind (especially by the powers of perception and understanding).
13. Philosophy In the philosophy of Kant, an object as it is perceived by the senses, as opposed to a noumenon.
    Philosophy
14. Physics An observable event.
    Physics
15. anything that can be perceived as an occurrence or fact by the senses
16. any remarkable occurrence or person
17. (Philosophy) philosophy a. the object of perception, experience, etc
    philosophy

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Examples

“The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten.”

“The Indians, making a hasty inference from a trivial phenomenon, arrived unawares at a probably correct conclusion.”

“In the sense in which we are using the term, the intellectuals are in fact a fairly new phenomenon of history.”

“Hurricanes are a meteorological phenomenon.”

“An electromagnetic phenomenon.”

“A volcanic eruption is an impressive phenomenon.”

“I verily believe that in the Moon there are no rains, for if Clouds should gather in any part thereof, as they do about the Earth, they would thereupon hide from our sight some of those things, which we with the Telescope behold in the Moon, and in a word, would some way or other change its Phœnomenon.”

“The phenomenon of a huge blazing fire, upon the opposite bank of the glen, again presented itself to the eye of the watchman. . . . He resolved to examine more nearly the object of his wonder.”

“Not much later—perhaps only two or three weeks later he has discovered meaning in them; he knows that they say "The cat sat on the hat." How this happens no one really knows, despite the efforts of philosophers and psychologists over two and a half millennia to study the phenomenon. [...] Indeed, this discovery of meaning in symbols may be the most astounding intellectual feat that any human being ever performs—and most humans perform it before they are seven years old!”

“"This, sir," said Mr Vincent Crummles, bringing the maiden forward, "this is the infant phenomenon—Miss Ninetta Crummles."”

“But, all the same, you're a phenomenon, and as queer a phenomenon as you are a blackguard.”

“Every "phenomenon" must be, at any rate, partly subjective or dependent on the subject.”

“The Kantian phenomenon is the real as we are compelled to think it.”

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