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- Phenomenon - n. - An appearance; anything visible; whatever, in matter or spirit, is apparent to, or is apprehended by, observation; as, the phenomena of heat, light, or electricity; phenomena of imagination or memory.
- Phenomenon - n. - That which strikes one as strange, unusual, or unaccountable; an extraordinary or very remarkable person, thing, or occurrence; as, a musical phenomenon.
- Strobilation - n. - The act or phenomenon of spontaneously dividing transversely, as do certain species of annelids and helminths; transverse fission. See Illust. under Syllidian.
- Noumenon - n. - The of itself unknown and unknowable rational object, or thing in itself, which is distinguished from the phenomenon through which it is apprehended by the senses, and by which it is interpreted and understood; -- so used in the philosophy of Kant and his followers.
- Thermotropism - n. - The phenomenon of turning towards a source of warmth, seen in the growing parts of some plants.
- Hydrometeor - n. - A meteor or atmospheric phenomenon dependent upon the vapor of water; -- in the pl., a general term for the whole aqueous phenomena of the atmosphere, as rain, snow, hail, etc.
- Meteor - n. - Any phenomenon or appearance in the atmosphere, as clouds, rain, hail, snow, etc.
- Electro-chronograph - n. - An instrument for obtaining an accurate record of the time at which any observed phenomenon occurs, or of its duration. It has an electro-magnetic register connected with a clock. See Chronograph.
- Sequela - n. - A morbid phenomenon left as the result of a disease; a disease resulting from another.
- Rumination - n. - The regurgitation of food from the stomach after it has been swallowed, -- occasionally observed as a morbid phenomenon in man.
- Trichromatism - n. - The quality, state, or phenomenon of being trichromatic.
- Heliotropism - n. - The phenomenon of turning toward the light, seen in many leaves and flowers.
- Myth - n. - A story of great but unknown age which originally embodied a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; an ancient legend of a god, a hero, the origin of a race, etc.; a wonder story of prehistoric origin; a popular fable which is, or has been, received as historical.
- Epipolized - a. - Changed to the epipolic condition, or that in which the phenomenon of fluorescence is presented; produced by fluorescence; as, epipolized light.