Words could be said to have, rather than "meaning", a semantic potential, defined as the collection of past uses of a word w on the basis of which similarities can be established between source situations (i.e., the circumstances in which a speaker has used w) and target situations (i.e., candidate occasions of application of w).
The problem is particularly serious on the occasion of large power application, such as all electric aero-engine.
Choose your method of application.
In many occasions the applications of ultrasound can avoid the use of catalysts in organic reactions.
Untrue on that occasion, of course.
An occasion of mourning had been hijacked.
To Jean Mawhin on the occasion of his seventieth birthday.
Create a sense of occasion, of event.
On this occasion, 16 applications were received from outstanding researchers (Brazil and abroad) interested in participating in the board of editors, among which we selected three.
Yo didn't rise to the occasion, but the applications and influence of push notifications has been growing ever since.
In many occasions, given the application, binarization imposes certain conditions (elimination of regions, pruning or integration of certain maxima, etc).
