Evenk

n : a member of the Tungus speaking people of Mongolian race who

are a nomadic people widely spread over E Siberia;

related to the Manchu [syn: {Tungus}, {Evenk}]

event

1. An occurrence or happening of significance to a

task or program, such as the completion of an asynchronous

input/output operation. A task may wait for an event or any

of a set of events or it may (request to) receive asynchronous

notification (a {signal} or {interrupt}) that the event has

occurred.

See also {event-driven}.

2. A transaction or other activity that affects the

records in a file.

(2000-02-09)