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Word: accident
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Meaning:
Noun:
- heraldry A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms
- legal casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
- An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences.
- Any chance event.
- Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential.
- transport An unintended event such as a collision that causes damage or death.
- euphemism An instance of incontinence.
- euphemism An unintended pregnancy.
- geology An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
- grammar A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.
- 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.
- logic A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as ''sweetness'', ''softness''.
- rfv-sense obsolete Unusual appearance or Geoffrey Chaucer
- uncountable Chance.
Source: Wiktionary
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