Look up: accident

1. Accident
   Accident is British slang for an arrest.
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2. accident
   [n] - a mishap 2. [n] - anything that happens by chance without an apparent cause
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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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 ...
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6. 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 e...
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7. 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. 'O...
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8. accident
   fortuity noun anything that happens by chance without an apparent cause
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9. accident
   (ak´sĭ-dәnt) an unforeseen occurrence, especially one of an injurious nature. cerebral vascular accident , cerebrovascular accidentCVA stroke syndrome.
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10. 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 acc...
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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. Accident
    In heraldry, an accident is a point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
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15. Accident
    Accident is British slang for an arrest.
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16. accident
    Type: Term Pronunciation: ak′si-dent Definitions: 1. An unplanned or unintended but sometimes predictable event leading to injury, in traffic, industry, or a domestic setting, or such an event developing in the course of a disease.
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17. ACCIDENT
    An unfortunate and undesired event. It results in loss, damage or personal injury. Collision, injury to any person, loss of life, disablement and material damage or expenses that innocent parties have to pay when it was not their fault, can be an occurrence of an accident.
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18. accident
    
    • a mishap; especially one causing injury or death
    • anything that happens by chance without an apparent cause
    
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19. 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. Acci...
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20. Accident
    The happening of an event without the concurrence of the will of the person by whose agency it was caused or the happening of an event without any human agency; the burning of a house in consequence of a fire being made for the ordinary purpose of warming the house which is an accident of the first ...
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21. Accident
    (fallacy) The logical fallacy of `accident` (also called `destroying the exception` or `a dicto simpliciter ad dictum secundum quid`) is a deductive fallacy occurring in statistical syllogisms (an argument based on a generalization) when an exception to a rule of thumb is ignored. It i...
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22. Accident
    (philosophy) `Accident`, as used in isbn=9780521387606-->--> The word "accident" has been employed throughout the history of philosophy with several distinct meanings. Aristotelian substance theory : To take another example, all bachelors are unmarried: this is a necessary or essent...
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23. Accident
    (Bottom episode) "`Accident`" is the sixth and final episode of the first series of British sitcom accessdate=2008-12-23-->-->. This episode sees the first appearance of Eddie`s "real friends" Spudgun (Steven O`Donnell (actor)|Steven O`Donnell) and Dave Hedgehog (Chris...
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24. Accident
    (novel) `Accident` is 1994 novel by Romance novelist Danielle Steel Plot summary: Page Clarke is a 40-year-old-happily married woman who lives with her 44 year old husband Brad Clarke, her 15 year old daughter Allyson and 7 year old son Andrew. One night Brad goes on an unexpected busi...
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25. Accident
    An `accident` is a specific, unpredictable, unusual and unintended external action which occurs in a particular time and place, with no apparent and deliberate cause but with marked effects. It implies a generally negative outcome which may have been avoided or prevented had circumstances leading up...
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