Onset (audio), the beginning of a musical note or soundOnset, Massachusetts, village in the United StatesOnset Island (Massachusetts), a small island located at the western end of the Cape Cod CanalInteronset interval, a term in musicSyllable onset, a term in phonetics and phonologyThe Onset, Liverpool indie rock group formed by Mike Badger of the La'sThe Onset (album), a 2005 album by the bandUSS Onset (SP-1224), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918 reference