event
<software>
1. An occurrence or happening of significance to a task or program, such as the completion of an asynchronous input/output operation. A task may wait for an event or any of a set of events or it may (request to) receive asynchronous notification (a signal or interrupt) that the event has occurred.
See also event-driven.<data>
2. A transaction or other activity that affects the records in a file.
Last updated: 2000-02-09
Nearby terms:
evaluator ♦ EVE ♦ event ♦ Event Description Language ♦ event-driven
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