accidental.
Pertaining to accident and not essence; thus, inessential; incidental; secondary.
Meaning & usage
Pertaining to accident and not essence; thus, inessential; incidental; secondary.
Pertaining to accident and not essence; thus, inessential; incidental; secondary. Nonessential to something's inherent nature (especially in Aristotelian thought).
Adjusted by one or two semitones, in temporary departure from the key signature.
Occurring sometimes, by chance; occasional.
Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; by accident, unintentional.
The discovery was purely accidental.
He was killed by an accidental gunshot.
Being a double point with two distinct tangent planes in 4-dimensional projective space.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English accidental, from Anglo-Norman accidentel, Middle French accidentel, accidental, and their source, Late Latin accidēntālis; corresponding to accident + -al.
A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.
A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.
Part of a text that has a mainly structural purpose, such as spelling, punctuation, or capitalization.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English accidental, from Anglo-Norman accidentel, Middle French accidentel, accidental, and their source, Late Latin accidēntālis; corresponding to accident + -al.
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