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incident

Pronunciation: /ˈɪnsɪdənt/

The English word “incident” has 10 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. An event or occurrence.
  2. A (relatively minor) event that is incidental to, or related to others.
  3. An event that causes or may cause an interruption or a crisis, such as a workplace illness or a software error.
  4. An event affecting an aircraft, usually a plane crash.

adjective

  1. Arising as the result of an event, inherent.
  2. Falling on or striking a surface.
  3. Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.
  4. Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.
  5. Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.
  6. In a relation of incidence

Etymology

Recorded since 1412, from Middle French incident, from Latin incidens, the present active participle of incidō (“to happen, befall”), itself from in- (“on”) + -cidō, the combining form of cadō (“to fall”).

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