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Word: accidental
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Meaning:
Adjective:
- Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous
- music Foreign to the key signature or a proper harmony.
- Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental
- unintentional; by accident
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Noun:
- A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
- in plural|painting 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.
- music A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.
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