Meaning

• An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.

• The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.

• An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially something such as a ghost or phantom.

  "The attic is haunted by the ghostly apparition of a young girl who died there."

• The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; opposed to occultation.

• A period of consecutive days or nights when a particular celestial body may be observed, beginning with the heliacal rising of the body and ending with its heliacal setting.