hazard

IPA: hˈæzɝd

The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
(in driving a vehicle) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
(golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
(billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
(historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
Chance.
(obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
(tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served.
(programming) A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.
A surname.
A home rule city, the county seat of Perry County, Kentucky, United States.

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