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noun, plural -cies.
1.
dependence on chance or on the fulfillment of a condition; uncertainty; fortuitousness: Nothing was left to contingency.
2.
a contingent event; a chance, accident, or possibility conditional on something uncertain: He was prepared for every contingency.
3.
something incidental to a thing.
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Contingency
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| contingency (kənˈtɪndʒənsɪ) | |
| —n , pl -cies | |
| 1. | a. a possible but not very likely future event or condition; eventuality |
| b. (as modifier): a contingency plan | |
| 2. | something dependent on a possible future event |
| 3. | a fact, event, etc, incidental to or dependent on something else |
| 4. | in systemic grammar |
| a. Compare adding modification of the meaning of a main clause by use of a bound clause introduced by a binder such as if, when, though, or since | |
| b. (as modifier): a contingency clause | |
| 5. | logic |
| a. the state of being contingent | |
| b. a contingent statement | |
| 6. | dependence on chance; uncertainty |
| 7. | statistics |
| a. the degree of association between theoretical and observed common frequencies of two graded or classified variables. It is measured by the chi-square test | |
| b. (as modifier): a contingency table; the contingency coefficient | |
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Word Origin & History
contingency
1560s, "quality of being contingent," from contingent (q.v.). Meaning "a chance occurrence" is from 1610s.
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