phenomenon

IPA: fʌnˈɑmʌnɑn

A thing or being, event or process, perceptible through senses; or a fact or occurrence thereof.
(by extension) A knowable thing or event (eg by inference, especially in science)
A kind or type of phenomenon (sense 1 or 2)
Appearance; a perceptible aspect of something that is mutable.
A fact or event considered very unusual, curious, or astonishing by those who witness it.
A wonderful or very remarkable person or thing.
(philosophy, chiefly Kantian idealism) An experienced object whose constitution reflects the order and conceptual structure imposed upon it by the human mind (especially by the powers of perception and understanding).

Examples of "phenomenon" in Sentences

And Don will get to see firsthand what this phenomenon is about.
This phenomenon is age-old: It's called "simultaneous invention."
But I think what makes the "phenom" in the phenomenon is the fact he was
Even the term phenomenon comes way to short of defining who and what this genius of song, dance, emotion, and love really was.
The main phenomenon is the propagation of so-called shallow water waves – water waves whose wavelength is large compared to the depth of the ocean.
Then I got to thinking about availability heuristics — the way we decide (for instance) how common a certain phenomenon is by referring to memorable examples, not a full data set.
"The Collins phenomenon is parallel to the Palin phenomenon," says Sandy Maisel, a political scientist from Colby College in Waterville, referring to Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
_If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs, and an instance in which it does not occur, have every circumstance in common save one, that one occurring only in the former; the circumstance in which alone the two instances differ, is the effect, or cause, or a necessary part of the cause, of the phenomenon_.