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event
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Working Definition:

An event is an experience of a situation in which something happens. The experience may be of an actual event or of a virtual event

Disciplinary Definitions:

"A change of state manifested in discourse by a process statement. . . An event can be an action or act (when the change is brought about by an agent: 'Mary opened the window') or a happening (when the change i not brought about by an agent: 'the rain started to fall'). Prince, Dictionary of Narratology

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