Usually means: Event or instance of happening.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. occurrence: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. occurrence: Merriam-Webster
  3. occurrence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. occurrence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. occurrence: Collins English Dictionary
  6. occurrence: Vocabulary.com
  7. Occurrence, occurrence: Wordnik
  8. occurrence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. occurrence: Wiktionary
  10. occurrence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. occurrence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. occurrence: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. occurrence: Dictionary.com
  14. occurrence: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Occurrence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Occurrence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. occurrence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. occurrence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. occurrence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. occurrence: FreeDictionary.org
  21. occurrence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. occurrence: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. occurrence: Rhymezone

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. occurrence: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. occurrence: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. occurrence: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. occurrence: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  2. occurrence: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. occurrence: Medical dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Environmental Terminology Discovery Service (No longer online)
  2. occurrence: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  An actual instance when a situation occurs; an event or happening.
noun:  (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change in or over time.

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