Event vs Timing - What's the difference?

In context|obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between event and timing

is that event is (obsolete) an affair in hand; business; enterprise while timing is (obsolete) an occurrence or event.

As nouns the difference between event and timing

is that event is an occurrence; something that happens while timing is (obsolete) an occurrence or event.

As a verb timing is

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

timing

English

Noun

(obsolete) An occurrence or event.

(uncountable) The regulation of the pace of e.g. an athletic race, the speed of an engine, the delivery of a joke, or the occurrence of a series of events.

(uncountable) The time when something happens.

(uncountable) The synchronization of the firing of the spark plugs in an internal combustion engine.

(countable) An instance of recording the time of something.

Derived terms

* active timing * attack timing * back-timing * basic ignition timing * basic timing * color timing * comic timing * computer-controlled timing * continuous variable valve timing * dynamic ignition timing * ignition timing * market timing * sequential valve timing * signal timing * stress timing * syllable timing * targa timing * target timing * valve timing * variable cam timing * variable valve timing

Verb

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