Meaning of occurrence in English

occurrence

noun

/əˈkʌr.əns/ us

/əˈkɝː.əns/

occurrence noun (HAPPENING)

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C1 [ C ]

something that happens:

everyday occurrence Street-fights are an everyday occurrence in this area of the city.

Synonyms

episode (EVENT)
event
happening 
incident 
phenomenon (EXISTING THING)

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Death was an everyday occurrence during the Civil War.
It's still not possible to accurately predict the occurrence of earthquakes.
There have been several occurrences of theft in the area recently.
The argument was an unfortunate occurrence in an otherwise pleasant day.

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occurrence noun (EXISTING)

C1 [ U ]

the fact of something existing, or how much of it exists:

The study compares the occurrence of heart disease in various countries.

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(Definition of occurrence from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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occurrence

noun [ C/U ]

/əˈkɜr·əns/

occurrence noun [C/U] (HAPPENING)

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an event, esp. one that happens unexpectedly:

[ C ] Break-ins are an everyday occurrence in this neighborhood.

occurrence noun [C/U] (EXISTENCE)

the existence or presence of something:

The tests can detect the occurrence of certain cancers.

(Definition of occurrence from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of occurrence

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Adaptive language modelling literature gives examples of how the problem of estimating of probabilities of repeat occurrences can be alleviated.

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As illustrated by the example of the parting of the seas, fairly impressive occurrences can be engineered through this mechanism.

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An object may belong to several class labels, each associated with it by the number of occurrences in the training data set.

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While no instances have been detected for the 20th century, the latest occurrences in the 19th century are preserved in unproductive or nonstandard collocations.

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However, observe that several occurrences of the same subformula receive distinct locations.

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Playful observations of everyday life and discontinuities in logic allow gamblers to translate dreams and other visions and occurrences into ' hunches'.

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Suppose now that in the sequent we have that and denote sets of occurrences of formulas.

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The distributive distributes the event across several participants or several locations, or several occurrences.

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In particular, several occurrences of the same formulas are still distinguished, but the information on their order is lost.

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Of all occurrences of the 31 words, 88% used the most common disambiguation.

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Since this context also occurs in the type schemes for the variables, the correct dictionaries will always be passed at occurrences of the variables.

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Entailment checking is quadratic in the number of variable occurrences (using a forward chaining algorithm), hence by using this test, join can be refined.

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There are many occurrences of an author's name alone in brackets as the only reference to the source.

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Explanations of such occurrences as inattention or neglect can, of course, verge on counterfactual history, with all its potential hazards.

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Applying this equation reduces a list by keeping leftmost occurrences.

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Collocations with occurrence

occurrence

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actual occurrence

However, it is impossible with any confidence to interpret threats based on evidence concerning the actual occurrence of what is threatened.

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annual occurrence

Offences for over-priced ale were an annual occurrence, and the same defendants appeared regularly.

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chance occurrence

This is the signature of true association rather than a random or chance occurrence.

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Translations of occurrence

in Chinese (Traditional)

發生, 發生的事, 事件…

Meaning of occurrence in English

occurrence noun (HAPPENING)

occurrence noun (EXISTING)

occurrence | American Dictionary

occurrence noun [C/U] (HAPPENING)

occurrence noun [C/U] (EXISTENCE)

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Collocations with occurrence

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