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uk /-ˈɒn.set/ us /-ˈɑːn.set/
(of an illness or medical condition) starting at the stated time or in the stated way: 表示”发病“，”起病“
early-onset dementia早发性痴呆
sudden-onset hearing loss突发性听力损失

onset | American Dictionary

onset
noun[ U ]
us/ˈɔn·set, ˈɑn-/
the beginning of something:
We have to get the roof fixed before the onset of winter.

Examples of onset

onset
A constraint-based account of syllable onsets : evidence from developing systems.
They make very clear that the lack of laryngeal timing contrasts is a property of single onsets and codas, not of clusters in general.
Therefore, ' codas ' may or may not count, but onsets can never be metrically relevant.
Glottal consonants permitted everywhere, both in onsets and in codas.
Word-internal alveolar stops in onsets and codas were also affected differently by prominence.
However, there was a stronger effect of word class on tokens in onsets than on tokens in codas.
The effect of syllable length on tokens in onsets and in codas was reversed when we considered the effect of ordinal syllable position on deletion.
As will be shown in section 4, in the symmetrical dialect, syllables with onsets and those without onsets display identical characteristics.
The audio files for sentences and verb stems were then cut by marking onsets and offsets using a sound editor.
The correct generalization is that palatalization is preserved in onsets but lost in codas.
Conversely, target voiceless obstruents were produced incorrectly as voiced in onsets, but were produced correctly in codas.
In other words, glides are onsets if nothing better is available.
Complex onsets like these are compatible with segmental theories of laryngeal licensing, but not with ours, which prohibits aspiration and glottalisation in the same margin.
The weightlessness of onsets directly follows from this approach.
On the relevance of syllable onsets to stress placement.
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Collocations withonset

onset

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abrupt onset
It is important to determine how quickly the flow attains an equilibrium behaviour after crossing the rather abrupt onset of surface waviness.
age of onset
First, our period of follow-up was short and our findings apply only to cases of early ageofonset.
delayed onset
One form of language impairment with a delayed onset and a slower rate of acquisition is much like that of younger unaffected children.
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