Event vs Termination - What's the difference?
event | termination | Synonyms |
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.
The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.
The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.
An end in time; a conclusion.
An end in space; an edge or limit.
An outcome or result.
The last part of a word; a suffix.
(medical) An induced abortion.
(obsolete, rare) A word, a term.
* 1599 ,
The ending up of a polypeptid chain.
Event is a synonym of termination.
As nouns the difference between event and termination
is that event is blowhole (of cetaceans) while termination is the process of terminating or the state of being terminated.event
English
(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 wordstermination
English
Noun
(en noun)- She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations , there were no living near her; she would infect to the north star.