Event may refer to:
Gatherings of people
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Ceremony
A ceremony (, ) is a unified ritualistic event with a purpose, usually consisting of a number of artistic components, performed on a special occasion.
The word may be of Etruscan origin, via the Latin '' caerimonia''.
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, an event of ritual significance, performed on a special occasion
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Convention (meeting)
A convention, in the sense of a meeting, is a gathering of individuals who meet at an arranged place and time in order to discuss or engage in some common interest. The most common conventions are based upon industry, profession, and fandom. ...
, a gathering of individuals engaged in some common interest
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Event management, the organization of events
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Festival
A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival c ...
, an event that celebrates some unique aspect of a community
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Happening
A happening is a performance, event, or situation art, usually as performance art. The term was first used by Allan Kaprow during the 1950s to describe a range of art-related events.
History
Origins
Allan Kaprow first coined the term "happen ...
, a type of artistic performance
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Media event, an event created for publicity
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Party
A party is a gathering of people who have been invited by a host for the purposes of socializing, conversation, recreation, or as part of a festival or other commemoration or celebration of a special occasion. A party will often feature f ...
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Sporting event
Sport pertains to any form of competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to spectators. Sports can, t ...
, at which athletic competition takes place
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Virtual event
Virtual may refer to:
* Virtual (horse), a thoroughbred racehorse
* Virtual channel, a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel (or range of frequencies) on which the signal travels
* Virtual function, a programming ...
, a gathering of individuals within a virtual environment
Science, technology, and mathematics
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Event (computing), a software message indicating that something has happened, such as a keystroke or mouse click
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Event (philosophy), an object in time, or an instantiation of a property in an object
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Event (probability theory)
In probability theory, an event is a set of outcomes of an experiment (a subset of the sample space) to which a probability is assigned. A single outcome may be an element of many different events, and different events in an experiment are usua ...
, a set of outcomes to which a probability is assigned
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Event (relativity), a point in space at an instant in time, i.e. a location in spacetime
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Event (synchronization primitive) In computer science, an event (also called event semaphore) is a type of synchronization mechanism that is used to indicate to waiting processes when a particular condition has become true.
An event is an abstract data type with a boolean state and ...
, a type of synchronization mechanism
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Event (UML), in Unified Modeling Language, a notable occurrence at a particular point in time
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Event (particle physics)
In particle physics, an event refers to the results just after a fundamental interaction takes place between subatomic particles, occurring in a very short time span, at a well-localized region of space. Because of the uncertainty principle, an eve ...
, refers to the results just after a fundamental interaction took place between subatomic particles
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Event horizon, a boundary in spacetime, typically surrounding a black hole, beyond which events cannot affect an exterior observer
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Extinction event
An extinction event (also known as a mass extinction or biotic crisis) is a widespread and rapid decrease in the biodiversity on Earth. Such an event is identified by a sharp change in the diversity and abundance of multicellular organisms. I ...
, a sharp decrease in the number of extant species in a short period of time
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Impact event
An impact event is a collision between astronomical objects causing measurable effects. Impact events have physical consequences and have been found to regularly occur in planetary systems, though the most frequent involve asteroids, comets or me ...
, in which an extraterrestrial object impacts planet
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Mental event, something that happens in the mind, such as a thought
Arts and entertainment
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The Event'', an American conspiracy thriller television series for NBC
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''The Event'' (2003 film), directed by Thom Fitzgerald
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''The Event'' (2015 film), directed by Sergei Loznitsa
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Derren Brown: The Events'', a Channel 4 television series featuring the illusionist Derren Brown
* ''Event'', a literary magazine published by
Douglas College
Business
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Event Communications, a London-based museum design consultancy
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Competition
Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero-sum game). Competition can arise between entities such as organisms, indivi ...
, a contest between organisms, animals, individuals, groups, etc.
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Disaster, an event causing significant damage or destruction, loss of life, or change to the environment
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Event chain methodology, in project management
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Eventing, an equestrian event comprising dressage, cross-country and show-jumping
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Eventive (disambiguation)
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Grouped Events, in philosophy, the experience of two or more events that occur in sequence or concurrently that can be subsequently categorized
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''Event'' (yacht), a yacht built by Amels Holland B.V.
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News
News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different Media (communication), media: word of mouth, printing, Mail, postal systems, broadcasting, Telecommunications, electronic communication, or through the tes ...
, new information or information on current events
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Phenomenon
A phenomenon ( : phenomena) is an observable event. The term came into its modern philosophical usage through Immanuel Kant, who contrasted it with the noumenon, which ''cannot'' be directly observed. Kant was heavily influenced by Gottfried W ...
, any observable occurrence
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Portal:Current events, (Wikipedia portal)
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Sequence of events
Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to co ...
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Sustainable event management
Sustainable event management (also known as event greening) is the process used to produce an event with particular concern for environmental, economic and social issues. Sustainability in event management incorporates socially and environmentally ...
or Event Greening
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The Event (disambiguation) The Event
''The Event'' (stylized as THE EVƎNT) is an American television series containing elements of science fiction, action/adventure and political allegory. It was created by Nick Wauters and aired on NBC from September 20, 2010 to May 2 ...
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