eventing

Etymology

event +‎ -ing

Noun

eventing (uncountable)

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

     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.

Verb

eventing

1. (obsolete) present participle of event