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The moment a thing stops being maybe and starts being definitely.
means The beginning or start of something, especially something forceful or unwelcome like an attack, illness, or storm.
from A straightforward English compound: "on" plus "set," built from the verb "set on" — to attack or assail. It originally carried that aggressive sense of forces being set upon a target, and the word still hangs around medicine and weather, places where things tend to begin by hitting you.
- military root
- Once meant a violent rush against the enemy
- sound science
- The split second a note begins, measured in milliseconds
- medical dread
- Doctors track it to clock how fast disaster arrives
- sudden vs gradual
- Symptoms acute or sneaky decide your whole diagnosis
- linguistics
- The consonants before a syllable's vowel core
for instance
onset of covid-19 pandemic — december 2019 in wuhan, china with first confirmed cases
onset of great depression — october 29, 1929, stock market crash on black tuesday