Event

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Something that takes place, especially a significant occurrence. synonym: occurrence.
  • noun. A social gathering or activity.
  • noun. A contest in a sports competition, such as a meet.
  • noun. A phenomenon or occurrence located at a single point in space-time, regarded as the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory.
  • noun. A final result; an outcome.
  • idiom. (at all events) In any case.
  • idiom. (in any event) In any case.
  • idiom. (in the event) If it should happen; in case.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To come out; break forth.
  • To bring to pass; execute.
  • To fan; cool.
  • noun. That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; especially, an occurrence of some importance; a distinctly marked incident: as, the succession of events.
  • noun. The consequence of anything; that in which an action, an operation, or a series of operations terminates; the issue; conclusion; end.
  • noun. In public games and sports, each contest or single proceeding in a program or series: as, the events of the day were a bicycle-race, a footrace, high jumps, etc.; the steeplechase was a spirited event.
  • noun. A contingent, probable, or possible happening; a coming to pass; in the theory of probabilities, anything which may or may not be; any general state of things considered as having a probability: as, in the event of his death his interest will lapse.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To break forth.
  • noun. That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad.
  • noun. An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
  • noun. The consequence of anything; the issue; conclusion; result; that in which an action, operation, or series of operations, terminates.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An occurrence; something that happens.
  • noun. An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
  • noun. A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory
  • noun. something that happens at a given place and time
  • noun. a special set of circumstances
  • noun. a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
  • Word Usage
    "A new event, for every thing was an _event_ to wretches to whom the world was reduced to the narrow space of a few toises, and for whom the winds and waves contended in their fury as they floated above the abyss; an event happened which diverted our minds from the horrors of our situation."
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