Look up: event

1. Event
   [computing] In computing an event is an action that is usually initiated outside the scope of a program and that is handled by a piece of code inside the program. Typically events are handled synchronous with the program flow, that is, the program has one or more dedicated places where event...
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2. Event
   In the digital world an event is any information acquired or produced by the digital control system.
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3. Event
   Is the occurrence of some critical action, catalyst or new information.
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4. Event
   What occurs when two particles collide or a single particle decays. Particle theories predict the probabilities of various possible events occurring when many similar collisions or decays are studied. They cannot predict the outcome for any single event.
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5. Event
   An occurrence meeting specified conditions, e.g. damage, a threshold wave height or a threshold water level.
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6. Event
   A collection of sample points.
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7. event
   [n] - a special set of circumstances 2. [n] - (relativity theory) a phenomenon located at a single point in space-time 3. [n] - something that happens at a given place and time
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8. Event
   Because MIDI utilizes commands, most sequencing software has an Event List or an Event Editor where one can scrutinize and change commands such as note on, note off, program change, control change or volume
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9. Event
   Any single piece of MIDI data is referred to as an 'event', eg a note being triggered, the velocity of the note, a program change etc. Because MIDI utilizes commands, most sequencing software has an Event List or an Event Editor where one can scrutinize and change commands such as note on, note off, program change, control change or volume.
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10. event
    A set of outcomes
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11. Event
    Event: A set of outcomes. Cardiovascular events might include a heart attack and gastrointestinal events a GI bleed. The use of the term 'event' in medicine comes from probability theory.
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12. event
    any collection of outcomes of an experiment.Formally,any subset of the sample space is an event.Any event which consists of a single outcome in the sample space is called an elementary or simple event.Events which consist of more than one outcome are called compound events Category: Statistics
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13. Event
    E·vent' noun [ Latin eventus , from evenire to happen, come out; e out + venire to come. See Come .] 1. That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad. 'The events<...
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14. Event
    E·vent' transitive verb [ French éventer to fan, divulge, Late Latin eventare to fan, from , Latin e out + ventus wind.] To break forth. [ Obsolete] B. Jonson.
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15. event
    noun something that happens at a given place and time
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16. event
    case noun a special set of circumstances; `in that event, the first possibility is excluded`; `it may rain in which case the picnic will be canceled`
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17. event
    noun a phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory
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18. Event
    • (n.) That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad. • (n.) An affair in hand; business; enterprise. • (v. t.) To break forth. • (n.) The consequence of anything; the issue; conclusion; result; that in which an action, operation, or serie...
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19. event
    (from the article `probability theory`) ...the dice as identifiable (say by a difference in colour), so that the outcome (1, 2) is different from (2, 1). An `event` is a well-defined subset ... Oftentimes probabilities need to be computed for related events. For instance, advertisements are developed for the purpose of increas...
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20. event
    notion that became of singular importance in the philosophical speculation about relativity physics. The best-known analyses are those of the ... [2 related articles]
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21. event
    event 1. An occurrence, especially one that is particularly significant, interesting, exciting, or unusual. 2. Any thing that happens at a given place and time. 3. An organized occasion; such as, a social function or sports competition. 4. Any of the races or other competitions that form part of a larger sports occasion, e.g., the Olympic Games.
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22. Event
    [UML] An event in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a notable occurrence at a particular point in time. Events can, but do not necessarily, cause state transitions from one state to another in state machines represented by state machine diagrams. A transition between states occurs only ...
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23. Event
    Event is American military slang for a nuclear incident.
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24. Event
    Event is American military slang for a nuclear incident.
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25. Event
    [philosophy] In philosophy, events are objects in time or instantiations of properties in objects. However, a definite definition has not been reached, as multiple theories exist concerning events. ==Kim’s Property-Exemplification Account of Events== Jaegwon Kim theorized that events are s...
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