Occurrence

Quick meaning: Occurrence is a noun meaning An actual instance when a situation occurs; an event or happening.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change in or over time.

Example Sentences

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.

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).

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.

Word Forms

• occurrences

Synonyms for occurrence

Depending on context, synonyms include affair, befalling, episode, event, goings-on, happening.

Antonyms for occurrence

Common opposites include state.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include happening, incidence, circumstance, event, case, incident.

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