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The word event can have several meanings:

In culture and social life:

• Festival, for example a musical event
• Ceremony, for example a marriage
• Competition, for example a sports competition
• Party, for example a birthday party
• Convention (meeting), for example a gaming convention

In science and mathematics:

• Event horizon, a boundary in spacetime, often referring to black holes
• Event, in a particle collider, a collision producing detectable results
• Event in probability theory

In technology:

• Event-driven programming, in which an event is a software message that indicates something has happened, such as a keystroke or mouse click
• Event chain methodology, in project management
• Event (UML), in Unified Modeling Language

In philosophy:

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

See also

• News
• Current events portal
• Event planning

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