event
Pronunciation: /ɪˈvɛnt/
The English word “event” has 13 meanings listed here.
noun
- An occurrence; something that happens.
- A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)
- One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
- An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
- A remarkable person.
- A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
- 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.
- A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
- An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
- An episode of severe health conditions.
verb
Etymology
From Middle French event, 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”); related to venture, advent, convent, invent, convene, evene, etc.
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