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EPIPHENOMENON
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Irregular inflected form: epiphenomena
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A secondary phenomenon that is a by-product of another phenomenon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("epiphenomenon" is a kind of...):
by-product; byproduct (a secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence)