All 9 Uses of
phenomenon
in
Snow Crash
- Case in point: After a certain Kourier tipped him off to the existence of Vitaly Chernobyl, he put a few intensive weeks into researching a new musical phenomenon-the rise of Ukrainian nuclear fuzzgrunge collectives in L.A. He has planted exhaustive notes on this trend in the Library, including video and audio.†
Chpt 3-4phenomenon = something that exists or happened -- often of special interest
- The men hold their hairy forearms up against their brows, swivel their great tubular bodies to and fro, trying to find the source of the illumination, muttering clipped notations to each other, brief theories about its source, fully in control of the unknown phenomenon.†
Chpt 3-4
- I like to rap about sweetened romance My fond ambition is of your pants So here is of special reinarkable way Of this fellow raps named Sushi IC The Nipponese talking phenomenon Like samurai sword his sharpened tongue Who raps the East Asia and the Pacific Prosperity Sphere, to be specific It's a typical loose slope of dirt and stones that looks like it would wash away in the first rainfall.†
Chpt 15-16
- "It kind of goes beyond those established categories," Juanita says, "because it's a new phenomenon.†
Chpt 25-26 *
- It is a neurological phenomenon that is merely exploited in religious rituals.†
Chpt 27-28
- Eusebius observed similar phenomena around the year 300, saying that the false prophet begins by a deliberate suppression of conscious thought, and ends in a delirium over which he has no control.†
Chpt 27-28phenomena = things that exists or happened -- often of special interest
- If there was some phenomenon that moved through the population, altering their minds in such a way that they couldn't process the Sumerian language anymore.†
Chpt 27-28phenomenon = something that exists or happened -- often of special interest
- Y.T. does a double take at this new phenomenon: Ng using the street name for a controlled substance.†
Chpt 31-32
- Looking back at Bruce Lee's trawler, he sees that the dark wavelike phenomenon was a wave of blood, as though someone hosed down the deck with a giant severed aorta.†
Chpt 49-50
Definition:
something that exists or happened -- especially something of special interest -- sometimes someone or something that is extraordinary
"Phenomenons" and "phenomena" are both appropriate plural forms of this noun. "Phenomena" is generally used in scientific or philosophical contexts.