Definition of "manifestation"

manifestation

/ˌmænɪfɛˈsteɪʃən/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural manifestations
1. The act or process of becoming manifest.
  Quotations
  Rather, the genuinely historical lies in the appearing of the phenomenalizing cogitatio, an appearing that does not refer back to pregivennesses; that is, the genuinely historical lies in the manifestation of noetic-noematic consciousness.
  2012, W. Mckenna, R.M. Harlan, L.E. Winters, Apriori and World, page 101
2. The embodiment of an intangible, or variable thing.
  Quotations
  Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.
  2014 March 3, Zoe Alderton, “‘Snapewives’ and ‘Snapeism’: A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, in Religions‎, volume 5, number 1, MDPI, pages 219–257
3. (medicine) The symptoms or observable conditions which are seen as a result of some disease.
4. A pattern or logo on a sheet of glass, as decoration and/or to prevent people from accidentally walking into it.
5. (dated) A political demonstration or protest.
  Quotations
  The nationalist parties were also busy during the whole of April preparing a manifestation for the 3rd of May, the centennial anniversary of the “constitution of 1791.”
  1891 June, “Russian Chronicle”, in Free Russia, number 11, page 16
  “The Printers Union published a communique branding General Radescu and those who took part in the manifestation as ‘fascists.’”
  1949, Reuben H. Markham, Rumania Under the Soviet Yoke, page 458
  There were anti-Semitic riots at several of the High Schools and manifestations among the unemployed graduates emerging from those institutions.
  1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, page 134