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A event (or a event ,) is a fact which occurs at a given time. It is characterized by a transition, even a rupture, in the course of the things, and by its relatively sudden or fugacious character, even if it can have repercussions thereafter. With the direction general, it means all that arrives and has a not very common character, even exceptional.

One speaks about an event in various fields:

in the press, it indicates a notable fact of topicality;
in History, a event is very notable fact, i.e. deserving to be reported by the historians;
in Science S, it indicates a change of state or context, related to a substantial modification of the value of a measurable parameter, in an interval of Temps in short on the scale of the experiment; in relativity, it is a point of the Espace-temps;
in Statistical Probabilities or , a event is part of the universe to which the study relates. For example, the sentence “the selected person is a woman” defines an event;
in Data-processing, a event is an action emitted by the user or a program in order to start a treatment.

The term is also used by Métonymie to moderately indicate a context of disorders (Civil war, riot S for example) by the population which underwent them. It is then used in the plural: the Lebanon board for example indicate the period 1973 - 1992 by the events .

Orthography

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Historically, in the first edition of the Dictionary of the French Academy (1694), the orthography of the word is event although its pronunciation is /e.v ɛn.mɑ̃/and not /e.ven.m ɑ̃/. It is about an error which the French Academy reconsidered. One of the hypothetical sources of this error would be the lack of character “E”, which would consequently have been replaced by “E”. However, the French Academy (1990) estimates that “ the old C-W communication event is however not regarded as faulty, although nothing does not justify it more ”. The new dictionaries also encourage the new orthography although the old one remains still valid.

Étymologique lies, the term comes from the Latin word eventus (event), coming itself from the verb evenire (to arrive). The word shares its etymology with advent which him was always written only with one “E”.

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