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con·tin·gent    Audio Help   [kuhn-tin-juhnt] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.dependent for existence, occurrence, character, etc., on something not yet certain; conditional (often fol. by on or upon): Our plans are contingent on the weather.
2.liable to happen or not; uncertain; possible: They had to plan for contingent expenses.
3.happening by chance or without known cause; fortuitous; accidental: contingent occurrences.
4.Logic. (of a proposition) neither logically necessary nor logically impossible, so that its truth or falsity can be established only by sensory observation.
–noun
5.a quota of troops furnished.
6.any one of the representative groups composing an assemblage: the New York contingent at a national convention.
7.the proportion that falls to one as a share to be contributed or furnished.
8.something contingent; contingency.

[Origin: 1350–1400; late ME (prp.) (< MF) < L contingent- (s. of contingéns, prp. of contingere), equiv. to con- con- + ting-, var. s. of tangere to touch + -ent- -ent]

con·tin·gent·ly, adverb
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con·tin·gent    Audio Help   (kən-tĭn'jənt)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Liable to occur but not with certainty; possible: "All salaries are reckoned on contingent as well as on actual services" (Ralph Waldo Emerson).
  2. Dependent on conditions or occurrences not yet established; conditional: arms sales contingent on the approval of Congress. See Synonyms at dependent.
  3. Happening by chance or accident; fortuitous. See Synonyms at accidental.
  4. Logic True only under certain conditions; not necessarily or universally true: a contingent proposition.

n.  
  1. An event or condition that is likely but not inevitable.
  2. A share or quota, as of troops, contributed to a general effort.
  3. A representative group forming part of an assemblage.


[Middle English, from Latin contingēns, contingent-, present participle of contingere, to touch; see contact.]

con·tin'gent·ly adv.
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
contingent 
c.1385, from L. contingentem (nom. contingens) "happening, touching," prp. of contingere "to touch" (see contact). Contingency "uncertain incident" is from c.1626.

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contingent

adjective
1. possible but not certain to occur; "they had to plan for contingent expenses" 
2. determined by conditions or circumstances that follow; "arms sales contingent on the approval of congress" 
3. uncertain because of uncontrollable circumstances; "the results of confession were not contingent, they were certain"- George Eliot 

noun
1. a gathering of persons representative of some larger group; "each nation sent a contingent of athletes to the Olympics" 
2. a temporary military unit; "the peacekeeping force includes one British contingent" 

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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
contingent [kənˈtindʒənt] noun
a number or group, especially of soldiers
Arabic: فِرْقَة عَسْكَرِيّه
Chinese (Simplified): 分遣部队,小分队
Chinese (Traditional): 分遣部隊,小分隊
Czech: kontingent
Danish: kontingent; troppekontingent
Dutch: contingent
Estonian: (väe)kontingent
Finnish: osasto, joukko
French: contingent
German: das Truppenkontingent
Greek: στρατιωτικό απόσπασμα
Hungarian: részleg, kontingens
Icelandic: liðsafli
Indonesian: kontingen
Italian: contingente
Japanese: 分遣隊
Korean: 분견대, 파견단
Latvian: kontingents
Lithuanian: kontingentas
Norwegian: gruppe, (troppe)kontingent
Polish: kontyngent
Portuguese (Brazil): contingente
Portuguese (Portugal): contingente
Romanian: contingent
Russian: контингент
Slovak: kontingent
Slovenian: (vojaški) kontingent
Spanish: contingente
Swedish: kontingent
Turkish: destek birliği, yedek kuvvet
See also: contingency

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Contingent

Ac`ci*den"tal\, a. [Cf. F. accidentel, earlier accidental.]

1. Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.

2. Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play.

Accidental chords (Mus.), those which contain one or more tones foreign to their proper harmony.

Accidental colors (Opt.), colors depending on the hypersensibility of the retina of the eye for complementary colors. They are purely subjective sensations of color which often result from the contemplation of actually colored bodies.

Accidental point (Persp.), the point in which a right line, drawn from the eye, parallel to a given right line, cuts the perspective plane; so called to distinguish it from the principal point, or point of view, where a line drawn from the eye perpendicular to the perspective plane meets this plane.

Accidental lights (Paint.), secondary lights; effects of light other than ordinary daylight, such as the rays of the sun darting through a cloud, or between the leaves of trees; the effect of moonlight, candlelight, or burning bodies. --Fairholt.

Syn: Casual; fortuitous; contingent; occasional; adventitious.

Usage: Accidental, Incidental, Casual, Fortuitous, Contingent. We speak of a thing as accidental when it falls out as by chance, and not in the regular course of things; as, an accidental meeting, an accidental advantage, etc. We call a thing incidental when it falls, as it were, into some regular course of things, but is secondary, and forms no essential part thereof; as, an incremental remark, an incidental evil, an incidental benefit. We speak of a thing as casual, when it falls out or happens, as it were, by mere chance, without being prearranged or premeditated; as, a casual remark or encounter; a casual observer. An idea of the unimportant is attached to what is casual. Fortuitous is applied to what occurs without any known cause, and in opposition to what has been foreseen; as, a fortuitous concourse of atoms. We call a thing contingent when it is such that, considered in itself, it may or may not happen, but is dependent for its existence on something else; as, the time of my coming will be contingent on intelligence yet to be received.
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Contingent

Con"tact\, n. [L. contactus, fr. contingere, -tactum, to touch on all sides. See Contingent.]

1. A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.

2. (Geom.) The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction.

3. (Mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock. --Raymond.

Contact level, a delicate level so pivoted as to tilt when two parts of a measuring apparatus come into contact with each other; -- used in precise determinations of lengths and in the accurate graduation of instruments.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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