(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 hostileforce.
(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.
“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.”