hazard
IPA: hˈæzɝd
noun
- 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.
verb
- To expose to chance; to take a risk.
- To risk (something); to venture, incur, or bring on.
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Examples of "hazard" in Sentences
- The conditions may be hazardous.
- The information was in a hap hazard state.
- It is one of the most hazardous pesticides.
- The hazard of leakage is largely eliminated.
- The epizootic was hazardous to the farm industry.
- The adulterant contained hazardous chemical substances.
- The circumstances of the Pearson executions were hazardous.
- A risk is the total of each of the hazards that contribute to it.
- Subsequently, the severity and probability of the hazards are estimated.
- It is an alternative to the hazardous and potentially carcinogenic hydrazine.
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