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What is an apparition?

What is an apparition? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.
  2. The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.
  3. An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially something such as a ghost or phantom.
  4. (astronomy) The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured;—opposed to occultation.
  5. (astronomy) A period of consecutive days or nights when a particular celestial body may be observed. An apparition begins with the heliacal rising of the body and ends with its heliacal setting.
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The feedback in this case showed that the sole witness to the apparition was a six year old boy named Roddy.
His eyes, lazy a second ago, stared at me wildly as if I was a ghost, an apparition.
The stunning apparition of a comet's tail was long regarded as a portent of doom and disaster, and in a way this is not too far from the mark.
Jumping to my feet, I lashed out with a kick to the ribs, yet my foot went right through the apparition.
Be this as it may, the old lags could not have been more friendly to this distinctly new Labourish apparition.
He held completely still, afraid to move and send the apparition skittering back into the depths of his sleep-riddled mind.

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