eventing
Sayi-VENT-ing/ɪˈvɛntɪŋ/
- 1A horse-riding sport made up of dressage, cross-country riding and jumping over fences.
Like an all-around contest where the same horse and rider must be good at three different things.
She trains her horse for eventing every summer.
Eventing combines three different riding challenges in one competition.
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- 2A way for one part of a program to tell another part when something happens.
Like a doorbell: when someone presses it, it tells the people inside that a visitor is here.
The app uses eventing to tell other parts when a new message arrives.
Good eventing makes it easy for one program to react to another.
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Origin
From the word "event" plus "-ing".