contingent
nounEtymology
From Middle English, from Old French contingent, from Medieval Latin contingens (“possible, contingent”), present participle of contingere (“to touch, meet, attain to, happen”), from com- (“together”) + tangere (“to touch”).
- derived from contingens
- derived from contingent
Definitions
An event which may or may not happen
An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something in the future.
That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number
That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share.
A quota of troops.
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Possible or liable, but not certain, to occur.
Dependent on something that is undetermined or unknown, that may or may not occur.
- The success of his undertaking is contingent upon events which he cannot control.
- a contingent estate
- The imposition of the death penalty should not be contingent on a particular jury's unguided understanding of a legal term of art.
Not logically necessarily true or false.
Temporary.
- contingent labor
- contingent worker
The neighborhood
- antonymnoncontingent
- neighborcontingent charge
- neighborcontingent claim
- neighborcontingent remainder
- neighborcontingent symbiosis
- neighborcontingent valuation
Derived
contact, contingence, contingency, contingentism, contingently, contingentness
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at contingent. 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.
A definitional loop anchored at contingent. 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 contingent
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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