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occurrence meaning

EN[əˈkʌɹəns] [əˈkɝəns]
FR occurrence

    Definition of occurrence in English Dictionary

  • NounPLoccurrencesSUF-ence
    1. Actual instance when a situation arises.
      1. Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
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    1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
      • If the Hungarian specimen is from a paralligatorid, then it would be the first occurrence of the group in the European archipelago.
      • Isoflurane induced an EEG with burst suppression without any SWDs, the combination of the neurolept analgesic anaesthesia mixture allowed the occurrence of SWD after isoflurane was washed-out.
      • However, it has been proven that convincing cases of cospeciation are indeed rare as cophylogenetic methods often overestimate the occurrence of cospeciation [18 ].
  • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
    1. Nouns
      • Countable nouns
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    Source: Wiktionary

    Meaning of occurrence for the defined word.

    Grammatically, this word "occurrence" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.
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