event
/ɪˈvɛnt/
An occurrence; something that happens; A prearranged social activity; One of several contests that combine to make up a competition
- plural
- events
Meanings
- 1
An occurrence; something that happens
That event happened 15 years ago.
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This is an important event.
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- 2
A prearranged social activity — function, etc.
- 3
One of several contests that combine to make up a competition
- 4
An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases)
- 5
A remarkable personrare
- 6
A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinaterare
- 7
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 taskrare
- 8
A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample spacerare
- 9
An affair in hand; business; enterpriserare
- 10
An episode of severe health conditionsrare