Read the dictionary definition of apparition. All definitions for this word.
1. an act of appearing or becoming visible unexpectedly
1. natives were amazed at the apparition of this white stranger
2. something existing in perception only
1. a ghostly apparition at midnight
3. the appearance of a ghostlike figure
1. I was recalled to the present by the apparition of a frightening specter
4. a ghostly appearing figure
1. we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us