Drop & bubble phenomena constitute a research area focused on the fluid dynamics, interfacial physics, and transport processes associated with liquid drops and gas bubbles in various environments.
Phenomena has been in occasional use as a singular since the early 18th century, as has the plural phenomenas. Our evidence shows that singular phenomena is primarily a speech form used by poets, critics, and professors, among others, but one that sometimes turns up in edited prose.
Although phenomena is often treated as if it were singular, correct usage is to employ phenomenon with a singular construction and phenomena with a plural: that is an interesting phenomenon (not phenomena); several new phenomena were recorded in his notes
Humans have survived earthquakes, plagues, asteroid strikes, but in this century we will introduce entirely new phenomena and factors into the world. While scores of amazing astronomical phenomena are in the offing, here are our picks for sky-watching events worth circling on your calendar for 2014.
Phenomena is the plural of phenomenon. But what sets the two phenomena apart is how they form. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
- a fact, occurrence, or circumstance observed or observable: the phenomena of nature. 2. something that is remarkable or extraordinary. 3. a remarkable or exceptional person; prodigy. 4. Philos. a. an appearance or immediate object of awareness in experience.
In modern philosophical use, the term phenomena means things as they are experienced through the senses and processed by the mind as distinct from things in and of themselves (noumena).
Although it seemed like a fad a few years ago, Twitter has evolved into a phenomena with more than 200 million users -- some of whom play college basketball at major schools.