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contingency

noun
/kənˈtɪnd͡ʒənsi/

Etymology

From contingent + -cy (16th century).

  1. derived from contingens
  2. derived from contingent
  3. suffixed as contingency — “contingent + cy”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being contingent, of happening by chance.

  2. A possibility

    A possibility; something which may or may not happen. A chance occurrence, especially in finance, unexpected expenses.

    • There was also the imperative necessity of creating a reserve fund for unforeseen contingencies, and the question ever present was how was money to be found.

  3. An amount of money which a party to a contract has to pay to the other party (usually the…

    An amount of money which a party to a contract has to pay to the other party (usually the supplier of a major project to the client) if they do not fulfill the contract according to the specification.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A statement which is neither a tautology nor a contradiction.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at contingency. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at contingency. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at contingency

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA