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noun

a beginning or start: the onset of winter.

an assault or attack: an onset of the enemy.

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

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

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onset (ˈɒnˌsɛt)

—n
1.	an attack; assault
2.	a start; beginning

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Word Origin & History

onset

1530s, "attack, assault," from on + set (n.); cf. to set (something) on (someone). Weaker sense of "beginning, start" first recorded 1560s. Figurative use in reference to a calamity, disease, etc. is from 1580s.

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Medical Dictionary

onset on·set (ŏn'sět')
n.
A beginning; a start, as of a cold.

Example sentences

Symptoms can develop gradually or have a sudden onset.

Many exhibit the onset of traits that evolution would magnify in later species.

Amazingly, the bogus injection relieved the soldier's agony and prevented the

onset of shock.

Even the onset of recession has not reversed that downward trend so far.

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"Just girt me for the onset with Eternity,
When breath blew back,
And on the other side
I heard recede the disappointed tide!"

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