interesting phenomenon

collocation in English

meaningsofinterestingandphenomenon

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interesting
adjective
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/ˈɪn.trə.stɪŋ/
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/ˈɪn.trɪ.stɪŋ/
Someone or something that is interesting keeps your attention because he, she, or it is unusual, exciting, or has a lot ...
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phenomenon
noun[C]
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/fəˈnɒm.ɪ.nən/
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/fəˈnɑː.mə.nɑːn/
something that exists and can be seen, felt, tasted, etc., especially something unusual ...
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By understanding the substrates of these processes, therefore, we may better understand not only theinterestingphenomenonof conscious will, but mechanisms of self-regulation.
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Figure 6 also shows the followinginterestingphenomenon.
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Aninterestingphenomenoncan be observed during the initial transient acceleration phase, cf. figure 30, which represents a detail of figure 29.
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Anotherinterestingphenomenonthat was identified in this study was the influence of different bacteria on the platelet counts.
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Aninterestingphenomenonconcerning the nature of the spanwise variations was observed when the initial instability had developed to a finite amplitude.
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Institutional path dependence is aninterestingphenomenon, as it explains institutional inertia as a result of past decisions.
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The presence of indeterminacy is aninterestingphenomenonsince models with indeterminacy can generate selffulfilling business-cycle fluctuations.
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Oneinterestingphenomenonis that rentier states have been much more prone to rebellion than merchant states.
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Yet another veryinterestingphenomenoncan be increasingly observed from the beginning of the eighteenth century: the use of ducats as ornaments and jewelry.
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Aninterestingphenomenonis that the measured graphs for () are not completely symmetric around = 1/2.
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The possibility of two different modes of flow for sufficiently high flow rates gives rise to aninterestingphenomenon.
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Therefore, complex limiting behaviour, although it is aninterestingphenomenonby itself, does not appear to be an important mechanism in maintaining quantitative genetic variation.
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It follows that only nonlinear systems may generate the economicallyinterestingphenomenonof (finite) multiple equilibria.
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Anotherinterestingphenomenonin these interactions is that some speakers use one or another form exclusively, while others vary their choice of address terms.
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The contagious epidemic of risk management ideas, across sectors and across countries, is in itself aninterestingphenomenon.
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However, oneinterestingphenomenonas a by-product is worth mentioning.
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A careful and thorough largeamplitude bifurcation study is required to provide physical insight into thisinterestingphenomenon.
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The dominance of spirurid nematodes in this host population is aninterestingphenomenon.
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As a result, scholars have failed to notice the veryinterestingphenomenonof an urban space containing elements of the foreign culture introduced as a result of the transit trade.
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This means that any approach to phonology which considers naturalness to be in any way aninterestingphenomenonmust keep close to the diachronic innovation of new phonological processes.
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