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noun
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an individual occurrence or event.
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a distinct piece of action, or an episode, as in a story or play.
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something that occurs casually in connection with something else.
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something appertaining or attaching to something else.
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EXPANDan occurrence of seemingly minor importance, especially involving nations or factions between which relations are strained and sensitive, that can lead to serious consequences, as an outbreak of hostilities or a war: border incident; international incident.
adjective
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likely or apt to happen (usually followed by to).
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naturally appertaining: hardships incident to the life of an explorer.
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conjoined or attaching, especially as subordinate to a principal thing.
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falling or striking on something, as light rays.
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Incidents
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Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English < Middle French < Medieval Latin incident- (stem of incidēns a happening, noun use of present participle of Latin incidere to befall), equivalent to Latin in- in-2 + -cid- (combining form of cad- fall) + -ent- -ent; compare cadence
1375–1425; late Middle English < Middle French < Medieval Latin incident- (stem of incidēns a happening, noun use of present participle of Latin incidere to befall), equivalent to Latin in- in-2 + -cid- (combining form of cad- fall) + -ent- -ent; compare cadence
Related forms
in·ci·dent·less, adjective
non·in·ci·dent, noun, adjective
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Word Origin & History
incident
1412, "something which occurs casually in connection with something else," from L. incidentem (nom. incidens), prp. of incidere "happen, befall," from in- "on" + -cidere, comb. form of cadere "to fall" (see case (1)). Sense of "an occurrence viewed as a separate circumstance"
EXPANDis from 1462. Meaning "event that might trigger a crisis or political unrest" first attested 1913. Incidental "casual, occasional" first recorded in Milton (1644). Conversational use of incidentally for "by the way" first attested 1925.
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