Event

Look up event, évent, or events in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Event may refer to:

Gatherings of people

• Ceremony, an event of ritual significance, performed on a special occasion
• Convention (meeting), a gathering of individuals engaged in some common interest
• Event management, the organization of events
• Festival, an event that celebrates some unique aspect of a community
• Happening, a type of artistic performance
• Media event, an event created for publicity
• Party, a large social or recreational gathering
• Sporting event, at which athletic competition takes place

In science, technology, and mathematics

• Event (computing), a software message indicating that something has happened, such as a keystroke or mouse click
• Event (philosophy), an object in time, or an instantiation of a property in an object
• Event (probability theory), a set of outcomes to which a probability is assigned
• Event (relativity), a point in space at an instant in time, i.e. a location in spacetime
• Event (synchronization primitive), a type of synchronization mechanism
• Event (UML), in Unified Modeling Language, a notable occurrence at a particular point in time
• Event (particle physics), refers to the results just after a fundamental interaction took place between subatomic particles
• Event horizon, a boundary in spacetime, typically surrounding a black hole, beyond which events cannot affect an exterior observer
• Celestial event, an astronomical phenomenon of interest
• Extinction event, a sharp decrease in the number of extant species in a short period of time
• Impact event, in which an extraterrestrial object impacts planet
• Mental event, something that happens in the mind, such as a thought

In arts and entertainment

• The Event, an American conspiracy thriller television series for NBC
• The Event (2003 film), a 2003 film directed by Thom Fitzgerald
• Derren Brown: The Events, a Channel 4 television series featuring the illusionist Derren Brown
• Event, a literary magazine published by Douglas College

See also

• Competition, a contest between organisms, animals, individuals, groups, etc.
• Disaster, an event causing significant damage or destruction, loss of life, or change to the environment
• Event chain methodology, in project management
• Eventing, an equestrian event comprising dressage, cross-country and show-jumping
• Eventive (disambiguation)
• Grouped Events, in philosophy, the experience of two or more events that occur in sequence or concurrently that can be subsequently categorized
• News, new information or information on current events
• Phenomenon, any observable occurrence
• Portal:Current events (Wikipedia portal)
• Sequence of events
• Sustainable event management or Event Greening
• The Event (disambiguation)