accident

Definitions

• An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences.
• (transport) Especially, a collision or similar unintended event that causes damage or death.
• Any chance event.
• (uncountable) Chance.
• Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential.
• (euphemistic) An instance of incontinence.
• (euphemistic) An unintended pregnancy.
• (philosophy) A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.
• (grammar) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.
• (geology) An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
• (geology) A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground.
• (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.
• (uncountable) Appearance, manifestation.