EVENT - 2 reference results
The word event can have several meanings:
In culture and social life:
- Festival, for example a musical event
- Ceremony, for example a marriage
- Competition, for example a sports competition
- Party, for example a birthday party
- Convention (meeting), for example a gaming convention
In science and mathematics:
- Event horizon, a boundary in spacetime, often referring to black holes
- Event, in a particle collider, a collision producing detectable results
- Event in probability theory
In technology:
- Event-driven programming, in which an event is a software message that indicates something has happened, such as a keystroke or mouse click
- Event chain methodology, in project management
- Event (UML), in Unified Modeling Language
In philosophy:
- Event (philosophy)
- Brain event, anything that happens in the brain
- Mental event, something that happens in the mind, such as a thought
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