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händelse — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • event noun Something that happens, especially something notable.
  • happening noun An event or occurrence, especially something unusual or notable.
  • incident noun An event, especially one that is noteworthy, unpleasant, or disruptive.
  • occasion noun A particular time when something happens, especially something notable.
  • occurrence noun Something that happens; an event or instance.
  • story noun An account, true or invented, of events told for information or entertainment.

Senses

händelse is used for these senses in English:

  • current events Current affairs; those events and issues of interest currently found in the news.
  • event An occurrence; something that happens.
  • event (physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
  • event (computing) A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.
  • event (probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
  • happening Something that happens.
  • in case of If there should be.
  • incident (countable, uncountable) An event or occurrence.

event — full definition

  1. noun Something that happens, especially something notable.
  2. noun A planned occasion or activity, such as a competition or gathering.
  3. noun (computing) An action detected by a program, such as a click or keypress, that triggers a response.

happening — full definition

  1. noun An event or occurrence, especially something unusual or notable.
  2. adj (informal) Lively, fashionable, and full of energy.

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