something that happens at a given place and time | (physics) an effect whereby a body moving in a rotating frame of reference experiences the Coriolis force acting perpendicular to the direction of motion and to the axis of rotation; on Earth the Coriolis effect deflects moving bodies to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere |
a phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory | |
a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | |
a special set of circumstances | |