event

  1. Noun.  An occurrence; something that happens.
  2. Noun.  An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
  3. Noun.  (physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
  4. Noun.  (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 specific task.
  5. Noun.  (probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.

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