ONSET


Meaning of ONSET in English

/on"set', awn"-/ , n.

1. a beginning or start: the onset of winter.

2. an assault or attack: an onset of the enemy.

3. Phonet. the segment of a syllable preceding the nucleus, as the gr in great. Cf. coda (def. 5), core (def. 14).

[ 1525-35; ON + SET, after the v. phrase set on ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .