Occurring

/əˈkɝɪŋ/ · verb

Meaning

present participle and gerund of occur.

Definitions by Sense

1. present participle and gerund of occur
2. present participle and gerund of occurre (obsolete form of occur)
3. An instance of something occurring; an event or happening.
4. (in combination) That occurs in a specified manner.

Example Sentences

The perceived and known fact on which this discussion is based, is not the difference between the occurring and the non-occurring of an act (for non-occurring does not say impossibility), nor the difference between possibility and impossibility of the act (for the possibility cannot be perceived), but the difference between the occurring and the impossibility.

While it was noted above that the interaffecting of the present by the occurrings and implyings of the past provides a means of generating a sense of a personal past through the accumulation of bodily-relevant occurrings and implyings, […]

naturally occurring macromolecules

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