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accident
  1. An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences.
  2. (transport, vehicles) Especially, a collision or similar unintended event that causes damage or death.
  3. Any chance event.
  4. (uncountable) Chance.
  5. Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential.
  6. (euphemistic) An instance of incontinence.
  7. (euphemistic) An unintended pregnancy.
  8. (philosophy) A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.
  9. (grammar) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.
  10. (geology) An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
  11. (heraldry) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
  12. (law) casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
  13. (military) An unplanned event that results in injury (including death) or occupational illness to person(s) and/or damage to property, exclusive of injury and/or damage caused by action of an enemy or hostile force.
  14. (philosophy) Appearance, manifestation.
  15. Synonyms:
  16. Examples:
    1. “Owing to an unfortunate accident during her journey from St. Edward's Private Academy to the palace, Princess Elizabeth Victoria has gone missing.”
      “He suffered no injuries in the accident, and his lorry was left with only minor damage.”
      “It was a fortuitous accident that the supply of gold increased broadly in step with demand in the long nineteenth century.”
accidentalism
  1. Accidental character or effect.
  2. The belief that outward appearance often contrasts with substance or essence (after Thomas Aquinas).
  3. A system of medicine based on belief that symptoms of disease are caused by external factors.
  4. The belief that events happen by random chance, without cause or purpose.
  5. Examples:
    1. “The doctors of our clinic also used such method of restoration of a destroyed tooth as a restoration with using of accidentalism.”
      “Have you ever given thought to the accidentalism of many great discoveries?”
accidental
  1. A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
  2. (painting, plural only) Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.
  3. (music) A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.
accidence
  1. (grammar) The accidents or inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar.
  2. The rudiments of any subject.
  3. A book containing the first principles of grammar; by extension, a book containing the rudiments of any subject or art.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “His soliloquies on fate and historical accidence, delivered to an overwrought Monty Bodkin, are among the best things that Wodehouse ever wrote.”
      “He can make himself understood, given a few nouns, pronouns, verbs and numerals, without troubling himself in the slightest about accidence.”
      “But, for all that I am, and have done here, I need not have gone beyond my accidence.”
accidentalist
  1. Someone who believes in accidentalism.
  2. An expert in accidents, especially those involving motor vehicles.
accidentology
  1. The study of accidents, especially of motor vehicle accidents
accidentality
  1. The quality of being accidental; accidentalness.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Connected with the almost-vacuity of indefinite exclusive cp-laws is an even more devastating problem, namely their accidentality.”
      “It is not easy to explicate the notion of accidentality here.”
      “For Deleuze, however, sensibility introduces an aleatory moment into thought's development, making accidentality and contingency conditions for thinking.”
accidentalness
  1. The quality of being accidental; casualness.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The latent collectivity of this subjectivity frees the monadological artwork from the accidentalness of its individuation.”
      Accidentalness is an active component, to be convincingly contextualized.”
accidentologist
  1. A specialist in accidentology
accidentologists
  1. plural of accidentologist
accidentalists
  1. plural of accidentalist
accidentals
  1. plural of accidental
  2. Examples:
    1. “Some composers frequently add bracketed accidentals in order to clarify complicated passages or chords.”
      “Both compositions are quite dissonant and require careful reading of many accidentals.”
      “I would hope that accidentals like the Black-necked Stork and Yellow-fronted Canary are safe regardless of existing legislation.”
accidences
accidents
  1. plural of accident
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Most accidents happened on highways and involved motorcyclists and passengers not wearing crash helmets.”
      “Main causes of fatal accidents are blocked or leaky flues, poor ventilation, poor installation and maintenance, faulty appliances, or misuse.”
      “The five categories of risk are sickness, invalidity, old age, accidents at work and occupational diseases, and finally unemployment.”
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