Event vs Memory - What's the difference?
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An occurrence; something that happens.
* Macaulay
An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
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* 1707 , , by Eccles and Congrieve; scene 8
* Young
(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.
(obsolete) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
* Shakespeare
(lb) An episode of severe health conditions.
(uncountable) The ability of an organism to record information about things or events with the facility of recalling them later at will.
* (rfdate) Albert Schweitzer
A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism.
(computing) The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).
The time within which past events can be or are remembered.
(attributive, of a material) which returns to its original
(obsolete) A memorial.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between event and memory
is that event is blowhole (of cetaceans) while memory is (uncountable) the ability of an organism to record information about things or events with the facility of recalling them later at will.event
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(wikipedia event)Noun
(en noun)- the events of his early years
- hard beginnings have many times prosperous events […].
- Of my ill boding Dream / Behold the dire Event .
- dark doubts between the promise and event
- In the event , he turned out to have what I needed anyway.
- If 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: , , and .
- Leave we him to his events .
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 eventExternal links
* * 1000 English basic wordsmemory
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Alternative forms
* memorie (archaic)Noun
- Memory is a facility common to all animals.
- Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory .
- I have no memory of that event.
- This data passes from the CPU to the memory .
- in recent memory'''''; ''in living '''memory
- These weeds are memories of those worser hours.
