Event may refer to:
Gatherings of people
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Ceremony, 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 fando ...
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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 co ...
, an event that celebrates some unique aspect of a community
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Happening, a type of artistic performance
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Media event, an event created for publicity
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Party, a social, recreational or corporate events held
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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 ...
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Virtual event, 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)
In philosophy, events are objects in time or instantiations of properties in objects. On some views, only changes in the form of acquiring or losing a property can constitute events, like the lawn's becoming dry. According to others, there are ...
, an object in time, or an instantiation of a property in an object
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Event (probability theory), a set of outcomes to which a probability is assigned
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Event (relativity)
In physics, and in particular relativity, an event is the instantaneous physical situation or occurrence associated with a point in spacetime (that is, a specific place and time). For example, a glass breaking on the floor is an event; it occurs ...
, a point in space at an instant in time, i.e. a location in spacetime
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Event (synchronization primitive), 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), 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, a sharp decrease in the number of extant species in a short period of time
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Impact event, 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
Douglas College is the largest public degree-granting college institution in British Columbia, Canada. Close to 17,000 credit students, 8,500 continuing education students and 4,210 international students are enrolled here. Douglas College o ...
Business
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Event Communications
Event Communications, or Event, is one of Europe's longest-established and largest museum and visitor attraction design firms; it is headquartered in London.
History
The firm was founded in 1986 by businesswoman Celestine ("Cel") Phelan and de ...
, 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, ind ...
, a contest between organisms, animals, individuals, groups, etc.
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Disaster
A disaster is a serious problem occurring over a short or long period of time that causes widespread human, material, economic or environmental loss which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources ...
, an event causing significant damage or destruction, loss of life, or change to the environment
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Event chain methodology
Event chain methodology is a network analysis technique that is focused on identifying and managing events and relationship between them (event chains) that affect project schedules. It is an uncertainty modeling schedule technique. Event chain me ...
, in project management
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Eventing
Eventing (also known as three day eventing or horse trials) is an equestrian event where a single horse and rider combine and compete against other competitors across the three disciplines of dressage, cross-country, and show jumping. This ...
, an equestrian event comprising dressage, cross-country and show-jumping
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Eventive (disambiguation)
Eventive may refer to:
* Eventive aspect, a class of grammatical aspect including perfective and imperfective aspect
* Eventive mood, a variant of the irrealis grammatical mood
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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, new information or information on current events
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Phenomenon
A phenomenon (plural, : phenomena) is an observable event. The term came into its modern Philosophy, philosophical usage through Immanuel Kant, who contrasted it with the noumenon, which ''cannot'' be directly observed. Kant was heavily influe ...
, any observable occurrence
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Portal:Current events, (Wikipedia portal)
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Sequence of events
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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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