NATURAL PHENOMENON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does natural phenomenon mean? 

• NATURAL PHENOMENON (noun)
  The noun NATURAL PHENOMENON has 1 sense:

1. all phenomena that are not artificial

  Familiarity information: NATURAL PHENOMENON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NATURAL PHENOMENON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

All phenomena that are not artificial

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("natural phenomenon" is a kind of...):

phenomenon (any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "natural phenomenon"):

chemical phenomenon (any natural phenomenon involving chemistry (as changes to atoms or molecules))

geological phenomenon (a natural phenomenon involving the structure or composition of the earth)

organic phenomenon ((biology) a natural phenomenon involving living plants and animals)

physical phenomenon (a natural phenomenon involving the physical properties of matter and energy)

 Context examples 

A natural phenomenon involving the physics of matter and energy.

(Physical Phenomenon or Property, NCI Thesaurus)