How to pronounce “event”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• An occurrence; something that happens.
• A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)
• One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
• An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
• (figurative, uncommon, dated) A remarkable person.
• (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.
• (obsolete) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
• (medicine) An episode of severe health conditions.
• [Verb]
• (obsolete) To occur, take place.

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