event
Phonetic
US /ɪˈvent/UK /ɪˈvent/
Translations
NOUNAn 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.
VERBTo occur, take place., To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate., To expose to the air, ventilate.
Variants
- events: Plural
Examples
Complex event processing evaluates a confluence of events and then takes action
Source:en.wikipedia.org
This picture describes an event actually happened and documented in a diary written in Latin (called Liber Notarum) by an apostolic protonotary named Johann Burchard
Source:www.quora.com
For Aja Naomi King, an Emmy nomination is a seismic event.
Source:www.nytimes.com
Timer/Scheduler/Event
Source:github.com
Taiwan’s chips stranglehold is sometimes called its “silicon shield” — the island’s most formidable deterrent against a Chinese attack, and its best assurance of American help in the event of a Chinese invasion
Source:www.nytimes.com
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