apparition
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apparition
- /ˌæp.əɹˈɪʃn̩/ UK
- /ˌæp.ɚˈɪʃ.n̩/ US
- /ˌæp.ɚˈɪ.ʃən/ US
Where it comes from
From Middle French apparition, from Latin apparitio, from appareo.
noun apparitions
- An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility. the sudden apparition of the Spaniards
- The thing appearing; a visible object; a form. […] which apparition, it seems, was you.
- An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially, one by a ghost, phantom, or suchlike; the entity itself. The region's economy is buoyed by tourism driven by past apparitions of the Virgin Mary.
- The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; opposed to occultation.
- A period of consecutive days or nights when a particular celestial body may be observed, beginning with the heliacal rising of the body and ending with its heliacal setting.
