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- 1.1 Etymology
- 1.2 Pronunciation
- 1.3 Noun
  - 1.3.1 Usage notes
  - 1.3.2 Derived terms
  - 1.3.3 Related terms
  - 1.3.4 Translations
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- 2.2 Noun
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- 2.3 Further reading

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle French occurrence, from Medieval Latin occurrentia. Morphologically occur +‎ -ence.

Pronunciation

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(Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈkʌɹ.əns/, /əˈkɜːɹ.əns/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(General American) IPA(key): /əˈkɝ.əns/, enPR: ə-kûrʹəns
(New Zealand) IPA(key): /əˈkɐɹ.əns/, /əˈkøːɹ.əns/
In accents without the hurry-furry merger, /ɜː/ is nevertheless occasionally heard through influence of occur.

Noun

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occurrence (plural occurrences)

An actual instance when a situation occurs; an event or happening. Synonyms: occurring; see also Thesaurus:occurrence
- 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29: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.
(grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change in or over time. Antonym: state Hyponyms: accomplishment, achievement, activity
- 1991, Robert Binnick, Time and the Verb: A Guide to Tense and Aspect‎[1], page 180: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).
- 2010, Nick Riemer, Introducing Semantics‎[2], page 320: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.

Usage notes

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This word is often misspelled occurence, occurrance or occurance.

Derived terms

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cooccurrence
co-occurrence
extent of occurrence
interoccurrence
nonoccurrence
occurrence time
postoccurrence
preoccurrence
programmed random occurrence
reoccurrence
time of occurrence

Related terms

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recurrence

Translations

[edit] actual instance where a situation arises

Arabic: حُدُوث m (ḥudūṯ)
Armenian: պատահար (hy) (patahar), դեպք (hy) (depkʻ), դիպված (hy) (dipvac), իրադարձություն (hy) (iradarjutʻyun)
Bashkir: осраҡ (osraq)
Belarusian: вы́падак m (výpadak), здарэ́нне n (zdarénnje), падзе́я (be) f (padzjéja)
Bulgarian: слу́чка (bg) f (slúčka)
Chinese: Mandarin: 事件 (zh) (shìjiàn)
Czech: výskyt (cs) m
Dutch: voorval (nl) m
Egyptian:

(zp)
Esperanto: okazo
Estonian: juhtum (et)
Finnish: tapahtuma (fi), tapaus (fi)
French: occurrence (fr) f
German: Vorfall (de) m, Vorkommnis (de) n, Vorkommen (de) n, Auftreten (de) n
Hebrew: מקרה (he) (miqre)
Hindi: घटना (hi) f (ghaṭnā), परिघटना f (parighaṭnā)
Hungarian: megtörténés (hu), előfordulás (hu)
Indonesian: keterjadian
Italian: occorrenza (it) f
Japanese: 出来事 (ja) (できごと, dekigoto)
Korean: 사건(事件) (ko) (sageon)
Latin: ēventum n
Latvian: notikums m
Macedonian: случај m (slučaj)
Mari: Eastern Mari: амал (amal)
Norwegian: tilfelle (no) n Bokmål: seanse m
Ottoman Turkish: سفر (sifr)
Persian: اتفاق (fa)
Plautdietsch: Väafaul m
Polish: wydarzenie (pl) n, wypadek (pl) m, zjawisko (pl) n, pojawienie się (pl) n, okazja (pl) f
Portuguese: ocorrência (pt) f, acontecimento (pt) m
Romanian: caz (ro) n, eveniment (ro) n, întâmplare (ro) f ; fenomen n
Russian: происше́ствие (ru) n (proisšéstvije), слу́чай (ru) m (slúčaj)
Sanskrit: घटना (sa) f (ghaṭanā)
Scottish Gaelic: tuiteamas m
Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: слу̏ча̄ј m Roman: slȕčāj (sh) m
Slovak: výskyt m
Slovene: dogodek (sl) m
Spanish: acontecimiento (es) m, ocurrencia (es), suceso (es) m
Swahili: jambo (sw)
Swedish: händelse (sv), tillfälle (sv) n
Tagalog: pagkatupad
Tocharian B: wäntare
Turkish: oluş (tr), hadise (tr), vaka (tr), olay (tr)
Ukrainian: ви́падок m (výpadok), поді́я f (podíja)
Walloon: avnaedje (wa) m