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The universe's way of making time feel like it's doing something.
means A thing that happens — a specific occurrence that stands out from the general drift of time passing.
from From Latin eventus, 'outcome' or 'occurrence,' the noun form of evenire — 'to come out, result, happen' — built from ex- ('out') plus venire ('to come'). So an event is literally what 'comes out' of the flow of time, the moment something finally arrives rather than just drifts.
- physics usage
- In relativity, an event is a point in spacetime, not just drama
- statistics usage
- Probability theorists call any outcome an event, even boring ones
- coding usage
- Software 'events' fire thousands of times before you finish reading this
- etymology twist
- Shares a root with 'eventual' and 'vent' — all about things escaping