onset

[ on-set, awn- ]
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noun
  1. a beginning or start: the onset of winter.

  2. an assault or attack: an onset of the enemy.

  1. Phonetics. the segment of a syllable preceding the nucleus, as the gr in great.: Compare coda (def. 5), core1 (def. 14).

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Origin of onset

1
1525–35; on + set, after the verb phrase set on

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British Dictionary definitions for onset

onset

/ (ˈɒnˌsɛt) /


noun
  1. an attack; assault

  2. a start; beginning

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