EPIPHENOMENON

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

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)

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