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event

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  1. effect                 2. occurrence            
 
event \i-'vent\ n [MF or L; MF, fr. L eventus, fr. eventus, pp. of evenire 
   to h]appen, fr. e- + venire to come - more at COME 1a: something that 
   happens : OCCURRENCE  1b: a noteworthy happening  archaic  2a: OUTCOME, 
   RESULT  2b: the issue of a legal action as finally determined  2c: 
   CONTINGENCY, EVENTUALITY  3: any of the contests in a program of sports  4: 
   the fundamental entity of observed physical reality represented by a poi nt 
   designated by three coordinates of place and one of time in the space-time 
   continuum postulated by the theory of relativity : in any case  : in any 
   case  : as it turns out  - at all events