| accident | |
| 1. n. An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences. | |
| to die by an accident | |
| 2. n. (transport, vehicle) Especially, a collision or similar unintended event that causes damage or death. | |
| There was a huge accident on I5 involving 15 automobiles. | |
| My insurance went up after the second accident in three months. | |
| 3. n. Any chance event. | |
| 4. n. Chance. | |
| 5. n. Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential. | |
| Beauty is an accident. | |
| 6. n. (euphemistic) An instance of incontinence. | |
| 7. n. (euphemistic) An unintended pregnancy. | |
| 8. n. (philosophy, logic) A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness. | |
| 9. n. (grammar) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case. | |
| 10. n. (geology) An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause. | |
| 11. n. (heraldry) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms. | |
| 12. n. (legal) casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation. | |
| 13. n. (philosophy, uncommon) Appearance, manifestation. | |
| 14. n. , passage=Nonetheless, those who have no evidence of the impossibility of the transformation of accident into substance believe that it is death itself which will be actually transformed into a ram on | |
| 15. n. , passage=It would also follow that God ought to be able to transmute genera, converting substance into accident, knowledge into ability, black into white, and sound into smell, just as he can turn th | |
| 16. n. , passage=nor can God effect the transmutation of substances (from accident into substance, or substance into accident, or substance without accident). | |
