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Etymology

From Latin ēventus (“‘an event, occurrence’”), from ēveniō (“‘happen, fall out, come out’”), from ē (“‘out of, from’”), short form of ex, + veniō (“‘come’”); see venture, and cf. advent, convent, invent, etc., convene, evene, etc.

Pronunciation

Noun

Singular event

Plural events

event (plural events)

  1. An occurrence of social or personal importance.
  2. (physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate
  3. (computing) A possible action that the user can perform and 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.
  4. (probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.

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Terms derived from "event"

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