occurrence

noun
/əˈkʌɹ.əns/UK/əˈkɝ.əns/US/əˈkɐɹ.əns/

Etymology

From Middle French occurrence, from Medieval Latin occurrentia. Morphologically occur + -ence.

  1. derived from occurrentia
  2. derived from occurrence

Definitions

  1. An actual instance when a situation occurs

    An actual instance when a situation occurs; an event or happening.

  2. The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change in or over time.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at occurrence. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at occurrence. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at occurrence

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA