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con·tin·gent     (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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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