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grammar revisions in process.nextTick()
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Lower-casing Event Loop and un-back-ticking some words
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## Phases in Detail

### **timers**
### timers

A timer specifies the **threshold** _after which_ a provided callback
_may be executed_ rather than the **exact** time a person _wants it to
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also has a hard maximum (system dependent) before it stops polling for
more events.

### **I/O callbacks**
### I/O callbacks

This phase executes callbacks for some system operations such as types
of TCP errors. For example if a TCP socket receives `ECONNREFUSED` when
attempting to connect, some \*nix systems want to wait to report the
error. This will be queued to execute in the **I/O callbacks** phase.

### **poll**
### poll

The **poll** phase has two main functions:

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ready, the event loop will wrap back to the **timers** phase to execute
those timers' callbacks.

### **check**
### check

This phase allows a person to execute callbacks immediately after the
**poll** phase has completed. If the **poll** phase becomes idle and
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and the **poll** phase becomes idle, it will end and continue to the
**check** phase rather than waiting for **poll** events.

### **close callbacks**
### close callbacks

If a socket or handle is closed abruptly (e.g. `socket.destroy()`), the
`'close'` event will be emitted in this phase. Otherwise it will be
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