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Wikipedia has an article on: EventEtymology
< Latin eventus (“‘an event, occurrence’”) < evenire (“‘to happen, fall out, come out’”) < e (“‘out’”) + venire (“‘to come’”); see venture, and cf. advent, convent, invent, etc., convene, evene, etc.
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Noun
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Singular event |
Plural events |
event (plural events)
- An occurrence of social or personal importance.
- (physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate
- (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.
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Terms derived from "event"
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External links
- event in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- event in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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