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event : kalihokan (n.)

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event
n. (tops)1. eventsomething that happens at a given place and time.
~ psychological featurea feature of the mental life of a living organism.
~ human action, human activity, act, deedsomething that people do or cause to happen.
~ group actionaction taken by a group of people.
~ might-have-beenan event that could have occurred but never did.
~ noneventan anticipated event that turns out to be far less significant than was expected.
~ happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrentan event that happens.
~ social eventan event characteristic of persons forming groups.
~ miraclea marvellous event manifesting a supernatural act of a divine agent.
~ migration(chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule.
~ make-up, makeupan event that is substituted for a previously cancelled event.; "he missed the test and had to take a makeup"; "the two teams played a makeup one week later"
~ fallthe lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve.; "women have been blamed ever since the Fall"
~ zapa sudden event that imparts energy or excitement, usually with a dramatic impact.; "they gave it another zap of radiation"
n. (state)2. case, eventa special set of circumstances.; "in that event, the first possibility is excluded"; "it may rain in which case the picnic will be canceled"
~ circumstancea condition that accompanies or influences some event or activity.
n. (phenomenon)3. eventa phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory.
~ einstein's theory of relativity, relativity, relativity theory, theory of relativity(physics) the theory that space and time are relative concepts rather than absolute concepts.
~ physical phenomenona natural phenomenon involving the physical properties of matter and energy.
n. (phenomenon)4. consequence, effect, event, issue, outcome, result, upshota phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon.; "the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "his decision had depressing consequences for business"; "he acted very wise after the event"
~ phenomenonany state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning.
~ offspring, materialisation, materializationsomething that comes into existence as a result.; "industrialism prepared the way for acceptance of the French Revolution's various socialistic offspring"; "this skyscraper is the solid materialization of his efforts"
~ aftereffectany result that follows its cause after an interval.
~ aftermath, wake, backwashthe consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event).; "the aftermath of war"; "in the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured"
~ bandwagon effectthe phenomenon of a popular trend attracting even greater popularity.; "in periods of high merger activity there is a bandwagon effect with more and more firms seeking to engage in takeover activity"; "polls are accused of creating a bandwagon effect to benefit their candidate"
~ brisancethe shattering or crushing effect of a sudden release of energy as in an explosion.
~ butterfly effectthe phenomenon whereby a small change at one place in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere, e.g., a butterfly flapping its wings in Rio de Janeiro might change the weather in Chicago.
~ by-product, byproducta secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence.
~ changethe result of alteration or modification.; "there were marked changes in the lining of the lungs"; "there had been no change in the mountains"
~ coattails effect(politics) the consequence of one popular candidate in an election drawing votes for other members of the same political party.; "he counted on the coattails effect to win him the election"
~ coriolis effect(physics) an effect whereby a body moving in a rotating frame of reference experiences the Coriolis force acting perpendicular to the direction of motion and to the axis of rotation; on Earth the Coriolis effect deflects moving bodies to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere.
~ dentan appreciable consequence (especially a lessening).; "it made a dent in my bank account"
~ domino effectthe consequence of one event setting off a chain of similar events (like a falling domino causing a whole row of upended dominos to fall).
~ harvestthe consequence of an effort or activity.; "they gathered a harvest of examples"; "a harvest of love"
~ wallop, impacta forceful consequence; a strong effect.; "the book had an important impact on my thinking"; "the book packs a wallop"
~ influencethe effect of one thing (or person) on another.; "the influence of mechanical action"
~ knock-on effecta secondary or incidental effect.
~ offshoot, outgrowth, branch, offseta natural consequence of development.
~ producta consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances.; "skill is the product of hours of practice"; "his reaction was the product of hunger and fatigue"
~ placebo effectany effect that seems to be a consequence of administering a placebo; the change is usually beneficial and is assumed result from the person's faith in the treatment or preconceptions about what the experimental drug was supposed to do; pharmacologists were the first to talk about placebo effects but now the idea has been generalized to many situations having nothing to do with drugs.
~ position effect(genetics) the effect on the expression of a gene that is produced by changing its location in a chromosome.
~ repercussion, reverberationa remote or indirect consequence of some action.; "his declaration had unforeseen repercussions"; "reverberations of the market crash were felt years later"
~ responsea result.; "this situation developed in response to events in Africa"
~ fallout, side effectany adverse and unwanted secondary effect.; "a strategy to contain the fallout from the accounting scandal"
~ spillover(economics) any indirect effect of public expenditure.