In ordinary language, an occurrence, a happening In MIDI, the signal that is transmittted-- like note on, note off, program change, control change [See also: PROGRAM CHANGE, CONTROL CHANGE ]
An event is a change within the system, including the creation or deletion of objects or relationships, the starting or stopping of an activity, and the reception of messages
An event is one of the races or competitions that are part of an organized occasion such as a sports meeting. A solo piper opens Aberdeen Highland Games at 10am and the main events start at 1pm
You use in the event of, in the event that, and in that event when you are talking about a possible future situation, especially when you are planning what to do if it occurs. The bank has agreed to give an immediate refund in the unlikely event of an error being made
Network message indicating operational irregularities in physical elements of a network or a response to the occurrence of a significant task, typically the completion of a request for information See also alarm and trap
In probability, an event is an occurrence or the possibility of an occurrence that is being investigated
A signal fired by the operating system in response to a user action For example, when a user clicks (and holds down) a mouse button, a MouseDown event is sent by the operating system The active application intercepts this signal and executes the code attached to the MouseDown event
—A notification by a program or operating system that "something has happened " An event may be fired (or raised) in response to the occurrence of a pre-defined action (e g , a window getting focus, a user clicking a button, a timer indicating a specific interval of time has passed, or a program starting up or shutting down) In response to an event, an event handler is called
An occurrence during the execution of a task, such as the completion of an input/output operation
An event occurs when two particles collide or a single particle decays Particle theories predict the probabilities of various events occurring when many similar collisions or decays are studied They cannot predict the outcome for a single collision or decay
An event is the representation of some asynchronous occurrence (such as a mouse click on the presentation of the element, or the removal of child node from an element, or any of unthinkably many other possibilities) that gets associated with an event target
A geographic feature occurring on or along a linear feature There are three event types: linear, continuous, and point For example, a left lane closure on route I-10 from the 1 5 to 2 1 mileposts is a linear event A continuous event is a linear event where the start position of a segment is the same as the end position of its preceding event, such as for speed limits A point event occurs at a point along a route, for example, an accident at milepost 6 3 on route I-10 In ArcInfo, an event is defined in terms of a route and measures along the route See also route-system
(n ) A previous line of input from the terminal; usually either a command line or an attempted command line The UNIX® history function maintains a numbered list of the last several events that you have entered
1 A significant action, such as a user gesture (e g , moving the pointer, pressing a pointer button, or typing a keystroke) or a window configuration change (e g , resizing a window) 2 A Lisp object that represents an event
The direct or indirect report of external activity, especially user activity on the keyboard and mouse
You say in the event after you have been discussing what could have happened in a particular situation, in order to indicate that you are now describing what actually did happen. `Don't underestimate us', Norman Willis warned last year. There was, in the event, little danger of that