eventing

English

Etymology

From event +‎ -ing.

Noun

eventing (usually uncountable, plural eventings)

1. An equestrian event which comprises dressage, cross-country, and showjumping; a similar event using motor cars
   • 2009 February 23, Katie Thomas, “Equestrian Rider’s Recovery Serves as Reminder of Sport’s Danger”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Chiacchia had to relearn the basics of walking and tying his shoes, but is now back competing in eventing.

2. (computing) The ability of one system or part of a program to send notifications to another, by raising events.
   • 2011, Thomas Lee, Karl Mitschke, Mark E. Schill, Windows PowerShell 2.0 Bible:

     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 bit of code, perhaps a second script running on that same system, can register for events.

3. (social sciences, rare) The occurrence of an event.
   • 1993, John Shotter, Conversational Realities: Constructing Life Through Language:

     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.

Derived terms

• three day eventing

Translations

equestrian event which comprises dressage, cross-country, and showjumping

• Finnish: kenttäratsastus
• French: concours complet (fr) m

Verb

eventing

1. (obsolete) present participle and gerund of event