eventing

Noun

eventing (usually uncountable, plural eventings)

1. (usually) An equestrian event which comprises dressage, cross-country, and showjumping; a similar event using motor cars
   • Chiacchia had to relearn the basics of walking and tying his shoes, but is now back competing in eventing.2009 February 23, Katie Thomas, “Equestrian Rider’s Recovery Serves as Reminder of Sport’s Danger”, in New York Times
2. (usually) The ability of one system or part of a program to send notifications to another, by raising events.
   • The concept behind eventing is fairly simple. With eventing, you have two pieces of code. For example, you might have a script that is running based on a scheduled task. That script might encounter some condition and can raise (or signal) an event, perhaps that it has completed its work. A second...2011, Thomas Lee, Karl Mitschke, Mark E. Schill, Windows PowerShell 2.0 Bible
3. (rare, usually) The occurrence of an event.
   • The corollary of this, as Whorf points out, is that thinkings and feelings to do with 'eventings' in the world are located there, out in the world in which the eventing takes place - as a natural part of the whole into which they are interwoven.1993, John Shotter, Conversational Realities: Constructing Life Through Language