occurrence
/əˈkɜɹ.əns/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.77 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change in or over time.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The time interval of an occurrence—a temporal instantiation—is a single occasion. However, a series of such occasions can fall within a certain time interval; in this case we may represent the occurrence as a single situation (cf. I ran off and on for an hour, I ran and ran for an hour, I would run and then run some more)."
- "The most basic Aktionsart distinction is between states and occurrences. […]Based on consideration of inherent differences between the events involved, Vendler distinguished three different types of occurrence, achievements, activities, and accomplishments."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈkɜɹ.əns/
- British English: /əˈkʌɹ.əns/