Event may refer to:
Gatherings of people
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Ceremony
A ceremony (, ) is a unified ritualistic event with a purpose, usually consisting of a number of artistic components, performed on a special occasion.
The word may be of Etruscan language, Etruscan origin, via the Latin .
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, an event of ritual significance, performed on a special occasion
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Convention (meeting)
A convention (or event), in the sense of a meeting, is a gathering of individuals who meet at an arranged place and time in order to discuss or engage in some common interest. The most common conventions are based upon industry, profession, ...
, a gathering of individuals engaged in some common interest
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Event management, the organization of events
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Festival
A festival is an event celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, Melā, mela, or Muslim holidays, eid. A ...
, an event that celebrates some unique aspect of a community
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Happening
A happening is a performance, event, or situation art, usually as performance art. The term was first used by Allan Kaprow in 1959 to describe a range of art-related events.
History
Origins
Allan Kaprow first coined the term "happening" i ...
, a type of artistic performance
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Media event
A media event, also known as a pseudo-event, is an event, activity, or experience conducted for the purpose of creating media publicity. It may also be any event that is covered in the mass media or was hosted largely with the media in mind.
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, an event created for publicity
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Party
A party is a gathering of people who have been invited by a Hospitality, host for the purposes of socializing, conversation, recreation, or as part of a festival or other commemoration or celebration of a special occasion. A party will oft ...
, a social, recreational or corporate events held
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Sporting event
Sport is a physical activity or game, often competitive and organized, that maintains or improves physical ability and skills. Sport may provide enjoyment to participants and entertainment to spectators. The number of participants in a p ...
, at which athletic competition takes place
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Virtual event
A virtual event is an online event that involves people interacting in a virtual environment on the web, rather than meeting in a physical location. Virtual events are typically multi-session online events that often feature webinars and webca ...
, a gathering of individuals within a virtual environment
Science, technology, and mathematics
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Event (computing)
In computing, an event is a detectable occurrence or change in the system's state, such as user input, hardware interrupts, system notifications, or changes in data or conditions, that the system is designed to monitor. Events trigger responses or ...
, a software message indicating that something has happened, such as a keystroke or mouse click
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Event (philosophy), an object in time, or an instantiation of a property in an object
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Event (probability theory)
In probability theory, an event is a subset of outcomes of an experiment (a subset of the sample space) to which a probability is assigned. A single outcome may be an element of many different events, and different events in an experiment are ...
, a set of outcomes to which a probability is assigned
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Event (relativity)
In Theory of relativity, relativity, an event is anything that happens that has a specific time and place in spacetime. For example, a glass breaking on the floor is an event; it occurs at a unique place and a unique time. Strictly speaking, th ...
, a point in space at an instant in time, i.e. a location in spacetime
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Event (synchronization primitive), a type of synchronization mechanism
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Event (UML), in Unified Modeling Language, a notable occurrence at a particular point in time
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Event (particle physics)
In particle physics, an event refers to the results just after a fundamental interaction takes place between subatomic particles, occurring in a very short time span, at a well-localized region of space. Because of the uncertainty principle, an e ...
, refers to the results just after a fundamental interaction took place between subatomic particles
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Event horizon
In astrophysics, an event horizon is a boundary beyond which events cannot affect an outside observer. Wolfgang Rindler coined the term in the 1950s.
In 1784, John Michell proposed that gravity can be strong enough in the vicinity of massive c ...
, a boundary in spacetime, typically surrounding a black hole, beyond which events cannot affect an exterior observer
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Extinction event
An extinction event (also known as a mass extinction or biotic crisis) is a widespread and rapid decrease in the biodiversity on Earth. Such an event is identified by a sharp fall in the diversity and abundance of multicellular organisms. It occ ...
, a sharp decrease in the number of extant species in a short period of time
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Impact event
An impact event is a collision between astronomical objects causing measurable effects. Impact events have been found to regularly occur in planetary systems, though the most frequent involve asteroids, comets or meteoroids and have minimal effe ...
, in which an extraterrestrial object impacts planet
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Mental event
A mental event is any event that happens within the mind of a conscious individual. Examples include thoughts, feelings, decisions, dreams, and realizations. These events often make up the conscious life that are associated with cognitive functio ...
, something that happens in the mind, such as a thought
Arts and entertainment
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Event film An event film or event movie is a blockbuster film whose release itself is considered a major event.
Criteria
It could be a highly anticipated sequel or a big budget film with state-of-the-art special effects or major stars generating considerable ...
, a term used to describe highly anticipated blockbusters
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The Event
''The Event'' (stylized as THE EVƎNT) is an American television series containing elements of science fiction, Action fiction, action/adventure and political allegory. It was created by Nick Wauters and aired on NBC from September 20, 2010, to ...
'', an American conspiracy thriller television series for NBC
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''The Event'' (2003 film), directed by Thom Fitzgerald
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''The Event'' (2015 film), directed by Sergei Loznitsa
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Derren Brown: The Events'', a Channel 4 television series
* ''Event'', a literary magazine published by
Douglas College
Douglas College is the largest college in British Columbia, Canada with 7,958 full-time equivalent students in 2023-24. Douglas College offers bachelor's degrees and general university arts and science courses, as well as career programs in h ...
Business
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Event Communications
Event Communications, or Event, is one of Europe's longest-established and largest museum and visitor attraction design firms; it is headquartered in London.
History
The firm was founded in 1986 by businesswoman Celestine ("Cel") Phelan and des ...
, a London-based museum design consultancy
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Accident
An accident is an unintended, normally unwanted event that was not deliberately caused by humans. The term ''accident'' implies that the event may have been caused by Risk assessment, unrecognized or unaddressed risks. Many researchers, insurers ...
, an accident is an unintended, normally unwanted event that was not directly caused by humans.
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Competition
Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero-sum game). Competition can arise between entities such as organisms, indi ...
, a contest between organisms, animals, individuals, groups, etc.
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Disaster
A disaster is an event that causes serious harm to people, buildings, economies, or the environment, and the affected community cannot handle it alone. '' Natural disasters'' like avalanches, floods, earthquakes, and wildfires are caused by na ...
, an event causing significant damage or destruction, loss of life, or change to the environment
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Event chain methodology
Event chain methodology is a network theory, network analysis technique that is focused on identifying and managing events and relationships between them (event chains) that affect project schedules. It is an uncertainty modeling schedule techniqu ...
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Eventing
Eventing (also known as three-day eventing or horse trials) is an equestrian event where the same horse and rider combination compete against other competitors across the three disciplines of dressage, cross-country, and show jumping. This ...
, an equestrian event comprising dressage, cross-country and show-jumping
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Eventive (disambiguation)
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Grouped events, in philosophy, the experience of two or more events that occur in sequence or concurrently that can be subsequently categorized
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''Event'' (yacht), a yacht built by Amels Holland B.V.
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News
News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different Media (communication), media: word of mouth, printing, Mail, postal systems, broadcasting, Telecommunications, electronic communication, or through the te ...
, new information or information on current events
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Phenomenon
A phenomenon ( phenomena), sometimes spelled phaenomenon, is an observable Event (philosophy), event. The term came into its modern Philosophy, philosophical usage through Immanuel Kant, who contrasted it with the noumenon, which ''cannot'' be ...
, any observable occurrence
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Portal:Current events, (Wikipedia portal)
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Sequence of events
Time is the continuous progression of existence that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compa ...
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Sustainable event management or event greening
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The Event (disambiguation)
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