Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - event
Event
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n. 1 a thing that happens or takes place, esp. one of importance. 2 a the fact of a thing's occurring. b a result or outcome. 3 an item in a sports programme, or the programme as a whole. 4 Physics a single occurrence of a process, e.g. the ionization of one atom. 5 something on the result of which money is staked. Phrases and idioms at all events (or in any event) whatever happens. event horizon Astron. the gravitational boundary enclosing a black hole, from which no light escapes. in the event as it turns (or turned) out. in the event of if (a specified thing) happens. in the event that disp. if it happens that. Etymology: L eventus f. evenire event- happen (as E-, venire come)
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noun see: come Date: 1549 1. outcome, the final outcome or determination of a legal action, a postulated outcome, condition, or ~uality , 2. something that happens ; occurrence, a noteworthy happening, a social occasion or activity, an adverse or damaging medical occurrence , any of the contests in a program of sports, the fundamental entity of observed physical reality represented by a point designated by three coordinates of place and one of time in the space-time continuum postulated by the theory of relativity, a subset of the possible outcomes of an experiment, see: occurrence ~less adjective ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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