Look up: accident

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   accident
   [n] - a mishap 2. [n] - anything that happens by chance without an apparent cause
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   Accident
   An unexpected event, usually referring to an injury or fatality. Although some accidents are easier to prevent than others, the financial damage can be limited by taking out accident and sickness insurance.
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   accident
   Any extraordinary or unforeseen event; an event that causes damage or injury. The term has specific meanings in the contexts of legal and insurance practice. In the English law of torts,...
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   accident
   1)Any event occurring without apparent or expected cause, not necessarily damaging: in this sense, an incident; 2)In emergency and disaster management: an injury-of any magnitude, but usually minor-that requires medical care Category: Management in the public and private sector • sudden unintentional action or event occurring at an unpredictable point in time causing harm to a person o...
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   Accident
   Ac'ci·dent noun [ French accident , from Latin accidens , -dentis , present participle of accidere to happen; ad + cadere to fall. See Cadence , Case .] 1. Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned an ...
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   accident
   1. Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident. 'Of moving accidents by flood and field.' (Shak) 'Th ...
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   accident
   fortuity noun anything that happens by chance without an apparent cause
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   Accident
   An `accident` is a specific, identifiable, unexpected, unusual and unintended external event which occurs in a particular time and place, without apparent cause but with marked effects. It implies a generally negative probabilistic outcome which may have been avoided or prevented had circumstances leading up to the accident been recognized, and acted upon, prior to its occurrence. Narrowly defined, the designation may refer only to the event, wh...
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   accident
   (ak´sĭ-dәnt) an unforeseen occurrence, especially one of an injurious nature. cerebral vascular accident , cerebrovascular accidentCVA stroke syndrome.
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    Accident
    • (n.) Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one`s foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident. • (n.) A property attached to a word, ...
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    accident
    (from the article `childhood disease and disorder`) In developed countries, accidents cause more loss of life and disability among children (except infants) than any disease. Road-traffic mishaps ... Mining operations are hazardous. Each year hundreds of coal miners lose their lives or are seriously injured. Major mine hazards include r...
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    accident
    (from the article `Epicureanism`) ...implied that an event can occur without a cause. It has seldom been noted, however, that the swerve is merely a special case—a transposition into ...
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    accident
    accident A situation in which the presence of mind is good, but the absence of the body is much better.
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    accident
    An unplanned or unintended but sometimes predictable event leading to injury, e.g., in traffic, industry, or a domestic setting, or such an event developing in the course of a disease. [L. ac-cido, to happen]
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    accident
    
    1. a mishap; especially one causing injury or death
    2. anything that happens by chance without an apparent cause
    
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    Accident
    (Lat. accidens) (in Scholasticism) Has no independent and self-sufficient existence, but exists only in another being, a substance or another accident. As opposed to substance the accident is called praedicamentale; as naming features of the essence or quiddity of a being accidens praedicabile. Accidents may change, disappear or be added, while su...
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