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Word: event (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • An occurrence of social or personal importance.
  • 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.
  • physics A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate
  • probability theory A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.

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