accidental
IPA: æksʌdˈɛntʌɫ
noun
- A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
- (painting, plural only) 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.
- (music) 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.
adjective
- Pertaining to accident and not essence; thus, inessential; incidental; secondary.
- (philosophy) Nonessential to something's inherent nature (especially in Aristotelian thought).
- (music) 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.
- (geometry) Being a double point with two distinct tangent planes in 4-dimensional projective space.
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