a fact that can be observed and studied

(sometimes proscribed) plural of phenomenon

Synonym of qwerty syndrome

(linguistics) The observation that a child's perception of phonemes occurs earlier than the ability to produce them.

(automotive, entomology, colloquial) The anecdotal observed decrease in the number of insects splattering across windshields during road trips across the years.

The sustained involuntary contraction of a muscle after a prolonged voluntary contraction.

(medicine) Synonym of rebound effect

Alternative form of windshield phenomenon

(mathematics) A behaviour of the Fourier series approximation at a jump discontinuity of a piecewise continuously differentiable periodic function, such that partial sums exhibit an oscillation peak adjacent the discontinuity that may overshoot the function maximum (or minimum) itself and does not disappear as more terms are calculated, but rather approaches a finite limit.

(mathematics) A problem of oscillation at the edges of an interval that occurs when using polynomial interpolation with polynomials of high degree over a set of equispaced interpolation points.