event-driven
Computing
adjective
Designating or relating to a program (especially an operating system) whose execution is controlled by events such as input from a mouse, keyboard, or other external device; (more generally) motivated or determined by events; activated in response to events.
Origin
1960s; earliest use found in Communications ACM.
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