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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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As May begins, Mercury is continuing the poor apparition it made in April, hanging low in the east at sunrise.
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.
Beneath the surface the green gloom parted to reveal the foggy apparition of the cutter's mast pointing us down towards the wreck.
His eyes, lazy a second ago, stared at me wildly as if I was a ghost, an apparition.
She turned away from the window, suppressing the oh-so-clear memory of the fearful apparition, and walked slowly down the gallery.
The image of a woman crouching before an ivy-covered wall, her body an apparition of light-sensitive salts, is anchored to a new body.

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