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How to pronounce “onset”
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Pronunciation guide for onset
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of onset with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Lee Hotz: Inside an Antarctic time machine 12 minutes, 55 seconds
going back before the onset of the last ice ages.
- Definition summary
- (medicine) The initial phase of a disease or condition, in which symptoms first become apparent.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce onset
Lee Hotz: Inside an Antarctic time machine 12 minutes, 55 seconds

going back before the onset of the last ice ages.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “onset”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (medicine) The initial phase of a disease or condition, in which symptoms first become apparent.
- (phonology) The initial portion of a syllable, preceding the syllable nucleus.
- (acoustics) The beginning of a musical note or other sound, in which the amplitude rises from zero to an initial peak.
- A setting about; a beginning.
- (obsolete) Anything added, such as an ornament or as a useful appendage.
- (archaic) An attack; an assault especially of an army.
- [Verb]
- (obsolete) To assault; to set upon.
- (obsolete) To set about; to begin.
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