occurrence

«occurrence» in Mova's school dictionary: Something that happens; an event — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an occurrence, occurrences)

meaning for a pupil

1) Something that happens; an event. tree →

2) The fact of something happening or how often it happens (the occurrence of storms). tree →

3) (formal) Being found or existing somewhere (the occurrence of gold in rocks). tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and maths: count the occurrence of each number in a list (frequency). In everyday life and the formal voice: "Late buses are a common occurrence." Phrases: a common occurrence, a rare occurrence, frequency of occurrence.

examples

• Snow in our town is a rare occurrence. tree →
• Fights at break are a common occurrence. tree →
• Tally the occurrence of each colour of car. tree →
• The occurrence of earthquakes is high in Japan. tree →
• Rainbows are a beautiful occurrence. tree →
• Count the occurrences of the letter "e" in the sentence. tree →
• Every flower that opened heard of this occurrence. tree →

note

Spelling trap: double c, double r, -ence: o-c-c-u-r-r-e-n-c-e. Verb: occur (occurred, occurring). In maths data, the number of occurrences of a value is its frequency; the value with the most occurrences is the mode.

In the corpora

• But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side; there is neither adversary, nor evil occurrence.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «occurrence» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.