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noun

an undesirable or unfortunate happening that occurs unintentionally and usually results in harm, injury, damage, or loss; casualty; mishap: automobile accidents.

Law. such a happening resulting in injury that is in no way the fault of the injured person for which compensation or indemnity is legally sought.

any event that happens unexpectedly, without a deliberate plan or cause.

chance; fortune; luck: I was there by accident.

a fortuitous circumstance, quality, or characteristic: an accident of birth.

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Philosophy. any entity or event contingent upon the existence of something else.

Geology. a surface irregularity, usually on a small scale, the reason for which is not apparent.

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin accident- (stem of accidēns happening, present participle of accidere to befall), equivalent to ac- ac- + -cid-, combining form of cad- fall + -ent- -ent

Related forms

post·ac·ci·dent, adjective

Can be confused: accident, Occident.

Synonyms
1. mischance, misfortune, misadventure; contingency; disaster.

Antonyms
4. design, intent.

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reasonable ground for a belief, as that the accused was guilty of the crime, used especially as a defense to an action for malicious prosecution

the legal claim of one person upon the property of another person to secure the payment of a debt or the satisfaction of an obligation

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The company has also had four crashes, including an accident in which there was an injury or fatality, according to the agency.

Most academics find their way into administrative work by accident.

Initial reports suggest that stormy weather may have contributed to the accident.

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The company has also had four crashes, including an accident in which there was an injury or fatality, according to the agency.

Most academics find their way into administrative work by accident.

Initial reports suggest that stormy weather may have contributed to the accident.

It's a measure of the health fears immediately after the accident that this number comes as a relief.

In some cases, thousands of people have been evacuated after an accident at a factory or during transport of liquefied chlorine.

There are mummies by design and mummies by accident.

The operators of the devices would be considered the cause for the accident and held responsible, attorneys say.

The names of the others involved in the accident were not immediately released.

The discrepancy between the panic generated by terrorism and the deaths generated by terrorism is no accident.

Well a sad accident to come back to the original topic.

The investigation into the fatal accident led to major design changes for future launch vehicles.

The final details of the cause of the accident are certainly a ways off from determination.

His feeling was that if the pilots learned precision in their flying that their accident rate would drop.

The accident is the company's fourth recorded crash in as many years, federal records show.

Engineers there and elsewhere insisted that they had learned their lessons, and that such an accident could never happen again.

It has been difficult to gauge the human impact of the accident.

We probably found his body about two hours after the accident.

The nuclear industry has measures in place, from protective containment barriers to backup generators, in case of an accident.

They have that status today not simply for their inherent beauty but for the happy accident of their survival.

King had been born hearing but became deaf in a motorcycle accident as a young man.

Accident rates can be especially high where border-hopping to still-smoky bars is possible.

They will conclude by writing a newspaper article about the submarine's accident at sea.

Not demonic possession, but a tragic molting accident.

Every now and again, you discover something really useful, quite by accident.

But some experts argue that this was an accident waiting to happen.

Melbourne's status as a pedestrian-friendly city is due to a happy accident.

In big cities, people thought he must have gotten into a car accident.

Better supervision of a mine with a poor safety record might have prevented the accident.

Park and his colleagues stumbled upon the selective pain insensitivity of the naked mole rat by accident.

African countries with mostly peaceful histories man their teams with accident victims.

All the animals he works on have died through accident or natural causes.

With a third group, she activated the squeak as if by accident.

The insurance of one's life and person against death and accident is now recognized as a sacred duty.

If you were shaken up by the car accident and it affected your test-taking abilities.

They compared the before and after accident rates for those highways, and compared those with highways that had no cameras.

Chinese surgeons performed the first-ever penis transplant on a man who's penis had been damaged in an accident.

He wrote up accident reports and checked the manifests.

Another big accident anywhere could still halt nuclear-energy programmes around the world.

The sulfur is a by-product of emergency procedures taken immediately after the accident.

Rauschenberg turned it all upside down, inserting clutter, accident and apparent chaos.

Take a being made of pure energy, born out of an accident in a lab, and spike with plenty of humorous pop-culture references.

The accident highlighted the hazard of fire aboard a submerged submarine, as well.

Gage had been a conscientious worker and a devoted family man before the accident.

The accident killed an electrician and injured five other workers.

Then earthquake, tsunami and a nuclear accident clobbered the world's third-largest economy.

The scooter could have caused any kind of deadly or mutilating accident.

The accident damaged the vessel's sonar dome, and the sub limped home under its own power.

Whether by accident or design, that helped concentrate minds.

But it was quite by accident that the meeting happened.

Their mother has fallen into an irreversible coma after a boating accident.

More people in more places handling toxic agents create more opportunities for an accident or intentional misuse by an insider.

On a bad day, an accident or closure cuts off a major artery and all plans are off.

It was quite easy to imagine yourself having a bad accident because you were mountaineering underground.

The accident permanently impaired his long-distant vision and depth perception.

It's no accident that some scholars wind up speaking about their recent books at academic conventions.

The accident did not damage the span, but the vessel's hull was gashed, officials said.

If the tea container shattered, whoever caused the accident would be beheaded.

Archery ranges, whether public or private, generally carry insurance in case of an accident.

Most of us are far more likely to die in a car accident or in childbirth than from a failure at a domestic nuclear plant.

The first set of questions revolves around this week's accident.

Those first minutes after an accident are filled with crucial insights.

He was returning from his second space flight when the accident occurred.

BP's report on the causes of the accident that led to the loss of.

News helicopters in the area began reporting the crash, generally presuming an accident had been caused by a small aircraft.

Every few years, an accident happens and people get hurt.

Zharkov to the dental hygienists and such, but that was by accident.

In this particular accident it looks to me that pollution to the sea is a much bigger problem that pollution to the air.

Not all exotic species are introduced to the ecosystem by accident.

But they came up with a new application when a mutual friend suffered an accident that left a shard of iron in his finger.

No one becomes a president or a provost by accident.

HM suffered from epilepsy that began after a bike accident at age nine.

The mine's owner tried to suppress news of the accident.

So the dummies are now evolving to be more representative of what actually happens to a person in an accident.

It is no accident that these laws are named after victims.

The reverse is also true: when the copper price is low, the accident rate falls.

There are many creative ways to preserve a moment lost in time, and sometimes it can happen by complete and utter accident.

The first electric meter was invented quite by accident.

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World English Dictionary

accident (ˈæksɪdənt)

—n
1.	an unforeseen event or one without an apparent cause
2.	anything that occurs unintentionally or by chance; chance; fortune: I met him by accident
3.	a misfortune or mishap, esp one causing injury or death
4.	logic, philosophy Also called: adjunct a nonessential attribute or characteristic of something (as opposed to substance)
5.	metaphysics a property as contrasted with the substance in which it inheres
6.	geology a surface irregularity in a natural formation, esp in a rock formation or a river system

[C14: via Old French from Latin accident- chance, happening, from the present participle of accidere to befall, happen, from ad- to + cadere to fall]

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Word Origin & History

accident

late 14c., "an occurrence, incident, event," from O.Fr. accident (12c.), from L. accidentum (nom. accidens, gen. accidentis), prp. of accidere "happen, fall out, fall upon," from ad- "to" + cadere "fall" (see case (1)). Meaning grew from "something that happens, an event,"

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to "something that happens by chance," then "mishap."

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"Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence."

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