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Event vs Conclusion - What's the difference?

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In obsolete terms the difference between event and conclusion

is that event is an affair in hand; business; enterprise while conclusion is an experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn.

As nouns the difference between event and conclusion

is that event is an occurrence; something that happens while conclusion is the end, finish, close or last part of something.

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.
    • If 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

    conclusion

    English

    (wikipedia conclusion)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The end, finish, close or last part of something.
  • * Prescott
    • A flourish of trumpets announced the conclusion of the contest.
  • The outcome or result of a process or act.
  • A decision reached after careful thought.
  • * Shakespeare
    • And the conclusion is, she shall be thine.
    The board has come to the conclusion that the proposed takeover would not be in the interest of our shareholders.
  • *
    • With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions' are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound ' conclusions . Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you geth
  • (logic) In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
  • * Addison
    • He granted him both the major and minor, but denied him the conclusion .
  • (obsolete) An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • We practice likewise all conclusions of grafting and inoculating.
  • (legal) The end or close of a pleading, e.g. the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
  • (legal) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.
    • (Wharton)

    Related terms

    * conclude * conclusive

    Antonyms

    * (end) beginning, initiation, start

    Coordinate terms

    * (in logic) premise