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The word event can have several meanings: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ...

Culture and social life

• A festival, for example a musical event
• A ceremony, for example a marriage
• A competition, for example a sports competition
• A party, for example a birthday party
• A convention (meeting), for example a gaming convention
• Other markings of cultural and social life, See Category:Social events

For other uses, see Festival (disambiguation). ... Part of the ceremony of the Changing of the Guard in Whitehall, London. ... Competition is the act of striving against others for the purpose of achieving gain, such as income, pride, amusement, or dominance. ... For other uses, see Party (disambiguation). ... Metro Toronto Convention Centre, late 2004. ...

Science and mathematics

• An event horizon is a boundary in spacetime, an area surrounding the black hole, beyond which events cannot affect an observer outside the event horizon.

For the science fiction film, see Event Horizon (film). ...

Technical

• Programming - In event-driven programming, an event is a software message that indicates something has happened, such as a keystroke or mouse click
• Process Control - In process control, an event is an occurrence that has happened and has been registered
• Calendaring and Scheduling - In the iCalendar standard for representing and exchanging calendar data, an event represents a scheduled amount of time on a calendar.
• Project management - In Event chain methodology, an event is an instantaneous occurrence that changes the state of the project or project's activity.

Event-driven programming is a computer programming paradigm. ... Process control is a statistics and engineering discipline that deals with architectures, mechanisms, and algorithms for controlling the output of a specific process. ... iCalendar is a standard (RFC 2445) for calendar data exchange. ... Event chain diagram Event chain methodology is an uncertainty modeling and schedule network analysis technique that is focused on identifying and managing events and event chains that affect project schedules. ...

Philosophy

• Event (philosophy)
• Brain event, anything that happens in the brain
• Mental event, something that happens in the mind, such as a thought

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See also

• News
• Current events portal
• Event planning
• Event chain methodology

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