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ac·ci·dent     (āk'sĭ-dənt, -děnt')  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
    1. An unexpected and undesirable event, especially one resulting in damage or harm: car accidents on icy roads.
    2. An unforeseen incident: A series of happy accidents led to his promotion.
    3. An instance of involuntary urination or defecation in one's clothing.
  2. Lack of intention; chance: ran into an old friend by accident.
  3. Logic A circumstance or attribute that is not essential to the nature of something.


[Middle English, chance event, from Old French, from Latin accidēns, accident-, present participle of accidere, to happen : ad-, ad- + cadere, to fall; see kad- in Indo-European roots.]

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