Both Uses
phenomenon
in
All the Bright Places, by Niven
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- Patrick Moore told viewers that they could experience the phenomenon by jumping in the air at the exact moment the alignment occurred.†
p. 233.5 *phenomenon = something that exists or happened -- often of special interest
- This is part of the suicideby-association phenomenon.†
p. 346.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(phenomenon) 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.
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In philosophy, a phenomenon is something as known through the senses. It is contrasted with a noumenon.