event
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[edit] Etymology
From Latin ēventus (“an event, occurrence”), from ēveniō (“to happen, to fall out, to come out”), from ē (“out of, from”), short form of ex, + veniō (“come”); see venture, and compare advent, convent, invent, etc., convene, evene, etc.
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[edit] Noun
event (plural events)
- An occurrence; something that happens.
- An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.3.3:
- hard beginnings have many times prosperous events [...].
- In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.3.3:
- (physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate
- (computing) A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.
- (probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
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Terms derived from "event"
[edit] Translations
occurrence of social or personal importance
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point in spacetime (physics)
action by the user which triggers an event handler (computing)
probability theory: a set of some of the possible outcomes
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[edit] External links
- event in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- event in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
