external event
collocation in Englishmeaningsofexternalandevent
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external
adjective
uk/ɪkˈstɜː.nəl/us/ɪkˈstɝː.nəl/
of, on, for, or coming from ...
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event
noun[C]
uk/ɪˈvent/us/ɪˈvent/
anything that happens, especially something important ...
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(Definition ofexternalandeventfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In section 3.5 we show how to make a widget reactive to anexternaleventsuch as a mouse click.
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Plans are series of actions and are activated either to fulfil a motivation or as a response to anexternalevent.
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The contrast is puzzling since we might suppose that both the encouragement and discouragement of a person need to be triggered by anexternalevent.
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The manipulation module will stay in such a state indefinitely until anexternaleventinfluences it.
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We define the external explicit services of equipment like services, the activation of which depends on anexternaleventof the equipment.
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Under the influence of anexternalevent, the manipulation module switches to an active state that is governed by the internal transition function and the time advance function.
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The antimimetic theory is compatible with, and often gives way to, the idea that trauma is a purelyexternaleventthat befalls a fully constituted if passive subject.
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The result is a tendency to relegate the problem of mimesis to a secondary position in order to establish a strict dichotomy between the autonomous subject and theexternalevent.
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Theexternaleventof selecting a floor will affect the state variable pending, but other effects are produced by events which are internal to the system.
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The proposals are designed to deal with inefficiencies in the operation of a slaughterhouse rather than anyexternalevent.
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Many have had experience of that in ministerial days, when someexternaleventshows the need to amend regulations.
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If surpluses go too low, that opens the company to risk in the event of a sharp fall in the stock market, or anotherexternalevent.
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Properly defined, the threshold is really the experience of the patient, whereas the intensity measured is anexternalevent.
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Lockdowns are also used to protect people inside a facility or, for example, a computing system, from a dangerousexternalevent.
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A dream is something that comes into contact with the mind; anexternaleventis something that impinges on the body.
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Besides operating from anexternalevent, one can use such digital delay generators to initiate an event and then provide the delay and gate timing.
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The kernel invokes the protothread of a process in response to an internal orexternalevent.
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