Event vs Cladogenesis - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between event and cladogenesis

is that event is blowhole (of cetaceans) while cladogenesis is an evolutionary splitting event in which each branch and its smaller branches forms a clade.

event

English

(wikipedia event)

Noun

(en noun)

An occurrence; something that happens.

* Macaulay

the events of his early years

An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).

*, II.3.3:

hard beginnings have many times prosperous events […].

* 1707 , , by Eccles and Congrieve; scene 8

Of my ill boding Dream / Behold the dire Event .

* Young

dark doubts between the promise and event

In the event , he turned out to have what I needed anyway.

(physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.

(computing) A possible action that the user can perform that 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.

(probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.

X

is a random variable representing the toss of a six-sided die, then its sample space could be denoted as {1,2,3,4,5,6}. Examples of events could be:

X = 1

X = 2

X \ge 5, X \not = 4,

and

X \isin \{1,3,5\}

(obsolete) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.

* Shakespeare

Leave we him to his events .

(lb) An episode of severe health conditions.

Derived terms

* blessed event * credit event * current events * doomsday event * eventful * event horizon * eventless * eventual * in the event * K-T extinction event * media event * quick time event * risk event * sentinel event * social event * speciation event * to be wise after the event

External links

* * 1000 English basic words

cladogenesis

English

(wikipedia cladogenesis)

Noun

An evolutionary splitting event in which each branch and its smaller branches forms a clade.