event

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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.

Pronunciation

Noun

event (plural events)

  1. An occurrence; something that happens.
  2. 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 [...].
    • 1707, Semele, by Eccles and Congrieve; scene 8
      Of my ill boding Dream / Behold the dire Event.
    In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway.
  3. (physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate
  4. (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.
  5. (probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
    If X is a random variable representing the toss of a six-sided die, then its sample space could be denoted as {1,2,3,4,5,6}. Examples of events could be: X = 1, X = 2, X \ge 5, X \not = 4, and X \isin \{1,3,5\}.

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Terms derived from "event"

Translations

occurrence of social or personal importance
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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