The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character.
(law) The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, either by himself or by his attorney, expressed by a formal entry by the proper officer to that effect; the act or proceeding by which a party proceeded against places himself before the court, and submits to its jurisdiction.
(medicine) Chiefly used by nurses: the act of defecation by a patient.
“The significance of this era is the appearance of mammals and the re-population of the planet.”
“Finn always had the appearance of being a man on a mission.”
“The appearance was beautiful and meticulously done.”
apparition
An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.
The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.
An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially something such as a ghost or phantom.
(astronomy) The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured;—opposed to occultation.
(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.
“We made an effort to control for the possible confounding effects of spatial heterogeneity, apparency, and phenology.”
“This is also related to the plant apparency hypothesis, which states that a plant will invest heavily in broadly effective defenses when the plant is easily found by herbivores.”
“Overall, these data indicate that TPS10 expression may have altered the relative attractiveness or apparency of TPS10 plants, with results depending strongly on plants' neighbors.”
“The criterion of apparentness and the reference to the economic performance of the company will no longer be applied.”
“Despite the apparentness of these divisions, I will argue in section VI that the second and third stages should be regarded as divisions within a main stage.”
“Oh, the world's remote from my existence, unless all that appearency outside me, as though it always meant to be inside me, gleams from afar into me gladsomely.”
“Sudden and extensive disappearings and fresh appearings would startle and confound us, and if continued, would shatter our sense of personality out of us.”
