incident

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   An event or occurrence.

   • She could not recall the time of the incident.
   • It was an incident that he hoped to forget.
   • The suspect was released without further incident.
2. 2

   A (relatively minor) event that is incidental to, or related to others.

3. 3

   An event that causes or may cause an interruption or a crisis, such as a workplace…

   An event that causes or may cause an interruption or a crisis, such as a workplace illness or a software error.

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   1. 4

      Arising as the result of an event, inherent.

      • No major hazards incident to this job.
      • It is at this juncture that Toder launches into the familiar and troubling topic of monogamy versus non-monogamy. She outwardly expresses no preference for either option, considering each to hold certain consequences incident to it.
   2. 5

      Falling on or striking a surface.

      • The incident light illuminated the surface.
   3. 6

      Coming or happening accidentally

      Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.

      • As the ordinary course of common affairs is disposed of by general laws, so likewise men's rarer incident necessities and utilities should be with special equity considered.
   4. 7

      Liable to happen

      Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.

      • All chances incident to mans frail life.
      • 17th century, Richard Milward, "Preface" to Seldeniana the studies incident to his profession
      • The Vives, like the strangles, is most incident to young horses, and usually proceeds from the same causes, such as catching cold, being over-heated, or over-worked, about the time of shedding their teeth.
   5. 8

      Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.

   6. 9

      In a relation of incidence

      • The second inequality follows from the fact that all the edges incident with a fixed vertex separate [an arbitrary graph] G.
      • If there is only one ideal point U and only one ideal line u, then either (i) every point in u is incident with a line in U, or else (ii) no point in u is incident with any line of U.

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