event
/ɪvˈɛnt/ · 2 syllables
Meaning
noun
- something that happens at a given place and time
- a special set of circumstances
“in that event, the first possibility is excluded” - a phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory
- a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
“the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise”
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