• n.
    ⦿something that causes an important event to happen
    lexical concept
  • the invasion acted as a catalyst to unite the country

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:catalyst
wn:interlingual indexili:i88864

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelcatalyst