event
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈvɛnt/
ipa: /iˈvɛnt/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /əˈvɛnt/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈivəɳʈ/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: events
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.
Senses: examples: text: In the event of strong wind…
text: the events of his early years
ref: 1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:
text: Experience in Australia indicates that after a devastating weather event, up to one-fifth of people suffer the debilitating effects of extreme stress, emotional injury, and despair.
ref: 2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, →ISBN, page 67:
glosses: An occurrence; something that happens.
examples: text: I went to an event in San Francisco last week.
text: Where will the event be held?
glosses: A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)
glosses: One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
examples: text: hard beginnings have many times prosperous events […].
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 3, member 3:
text: Of my ill boding Dream / Behold the dire Event.
ref: 1707, Semele, by Eccles and Congrieve; scene 8
text: dark doubts between the promise and event
ref: 1743, [Edward Young], “Night the Fourth. The Christian Triumph.”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
text: In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway.
glosses: An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
examples: text: Miss Burton, you are an event! Sleepy, old Lymston's going to love you! Bye-bye. Bye.
ref: 1985, Miss Marple: The Moving Finger, spoken by Mr. Pye (Richard Pearson):
synonyms: sensation
glosses: A remarkable person.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: 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.
examples: 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>5,X̸=4, and X isin 1,3,5.
topics: mathematics
probability-theory
sciences
glosses: A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
examples: text: Leave we him to his events.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An episode of severe health conditions.
Hyponyms: blessed event
credit event
Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event
current events
doomsday event
episodic events
extinction event
impact event
media event
quick time event
risk event
sentinel event
social event
speciation event
Derived terms: sense: Some may be Hyponyms
word: adverse event
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word: after-event
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word: afterevent
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word: anoxic event
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word: at any event
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word: Azolla event
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word: bioevent
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word: black swan event
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word: Bond event
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word: canon event
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word: certain event
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word: Christ event
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word: coevent
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word: combined event
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word: cosmic event horizon
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word: cosmological event horizon
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word: doujin event
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word: energetic event
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word: event-based
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word: event-based programming
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word: event data recorder
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word: event derivative
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word: event-driven
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word: event-driven architecture
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word: event-driven programming
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word: eventer
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word: eventful
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word: eventgoer
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word: event-goer
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word: event handler
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word: eventhood
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word: evential
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word: eventify
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word: eventism
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word: eventive
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word: eventization
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word: eventize
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word: eventless
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word: eventlike
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word: event loop
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word: event marketing
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word: eventness
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word: eventology
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word: event recorder
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word: event-related potential
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word: eventscape
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word: event sink
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word: event time
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word: event tree
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word: eventual
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word: extinction event
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word: extinction level event
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word: field event
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word: impossible event
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word: in any event
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word: interevent
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word: in the event of
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word: in the event that
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word: it is easy to be wise after the event
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word: K-T extinction event
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word: Lago Mare event
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word: life event
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word: liquidity event
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word: main event
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word: mass extinction event
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word: megaevent
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word: Messinian event
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word: microevent
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word: misevent
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word: Miyake event
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word: moral event horizon
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word: multievent
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word: never event
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word: nonevent
sense: Some may be Hyponyms
word: non-event
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word: perievent
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word: postevent
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word: pseudoevent
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word: road event
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word: signalling event
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word: special event
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word: subevent
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word: tail event
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word: then and in that event
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word: track event
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word: transient luminous event
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word: Triassic-Jurassic extinction event
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word: Tunguska event
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word: unevent
sense: Some may be Hyponyms
word: whiting event
Related terms: event horizon
in the event
wise after the event