| event | |
| 1. n. An occurrence; something that happens. | |
| 2. n. A prearranged social activity (function, etc.) | |
| I went to an event in San Francisco last week. | |
| Where will the event be held? | |
| 3. n. One of several contests that combine to make up a competition. | |
| 4. n. An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases). | |
| In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway. | |
| 5. n. (physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate. | |
| 6. n. (computing) 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 s | |
| 7. n. (probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space. | |
| IfX 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 \ge 5, X \not = 4, andX \isi | |
| 8. n. (obsolete) An affair in hand; business; enterprise. | |
| 9. n. (medicine) An episode of severe health conditions. | |
| 10. v. (obsolete) To occur, take place. | |
| 11. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate. | |
| 12. v. (obsolete, transitive) To expose to the air, ventilate. | |
| 13. v. cln, en, basic words | |
