occurring

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Verb

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occurring

  1. present participle and gerund of occur
  2. present participle and gerund of occurre (obsolete form of occur)

Noun

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occurring (plural occurrings)

  1. An instance of something occurring; an event or happening.
    Synonym: occurrence
    • 1976, J. R. T. M. Peters, God’s Created Speech: A Study in the Speculative Theology of the Muʿtazilî Qâḍîl-Quḍât Abû L-Ḥasan ʿAbd Al-Jabbâr Bn Aḥmad Al-Hamaḏânî, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, page 197:
      The perceived and known fact on which this discussion is based, is not the difference between the occurring and the non-occurring of an act (for non-occurring does not say impossibility), nor the difference between possibility and impossibility of the act (for the possibility cannot be perceived), but the difference between the occurring and the impossibility.
    • 2016, Janet Banfield, Geography Meets Gendlin:
      While it was noted above that the interaffecting of the present by the occurrings and implyings of the past provides a means of generating a sense of a personal past through the accumulation of bodily-relevant occurrings and implyings, []

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Adjective

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occurring (not comparable)

  1. (in combination) That occurs in a specified manner.
    naturally occurring macromolecules

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