Noun

(en noun)

A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process):

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A type of theatrical acting wherein the actor utilizes his personal emotions from personal experience to portray a scripted scene.

(programming, object-oriented) A subroutine or function belonging to a class or object.

(slang) Marijuana.

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: $X\; =\; 1$, $X\; =\; 2$, $X\; \backslash ge\; 5,\; X\; \backslash not\; =\; 4,$ and $X\; \backslash isin\; \backslash \{1,3,5\backslash \}$.

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

* Shakespeare

Leave we him to his events .

(lb) An episode of severe health conditions.