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.

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.
The other hazard is the unpaved street or path, particularly where it goes downhill.