hazard

Definitions

• The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
• An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
• (in driving a vehicle) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
• (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
• (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
• (historical) A (game)|game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
• Chance.
• (obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
• (tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served.
• (programming) A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.