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onset

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onset
/on"set', awn"-/, n.
1. a beginning or start: the onset of winter.
2. an assault or attack: an onset of the enemy.
3. Phonet. the segment of a syllable preceding the nucleus, as the gr in great. Cf. coda (def. 5), core (def. 14).
[1525-35; ON + SET, after the v. phrase set on]

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