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What (who) is ACCIDENT - definition
accident
![[[Versailles rail accident]] in 1842](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/A. Provost - Versailles - Railroad Disaster.jpg?width=200 "[[Versailles rail accident]] in 1842")
![[[Accident triangle]]s have been proposed to model the number of minor problems vs. the number of serious incidents. These include Heinrich's triangle<ref name="Heinreich 1931" /> and Frank E. Bird's accident ratio triangle (proposed in 1966 and shown above).](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pyramid of risks.svg?width=200 "[[Accident triangle]]s have been proposed to model the number of minor problems vs. the number of serious incidents. These include Heinrich's triangle<ref name=\"Heinreich 1931\" /> and Frank E. Bird's accident ratio triangle (proposed in 1966 and shown above).")
UNFORESEEN AND UNPLANNED EVENT OR CIRCUMSTANCE, OFTEN WITH A NEGATIVE OUTCOME
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n.
1.
Casualty, chance, fortuity, mischance, misadventure, calamity, mishap, miscarriage, misfortune, hap, hazard, contingency, unforeseen or fortuitous event. See contretemps.
2.
Property, quality, modification, affection, mode, condition, state, change, alteration, attribute, contingent attribute, modalization.
accident
UNFORESEEN AND UNPLANNED EVENT OR CIRCUMSTANCE, OFTEN WITH A NEGATIVE OUTCOME
Accidents; Accidentally; Fatal accident; Misadventures; The Principle of Swiss Cheese Management; Organizational models of accidents; Principle Of Swiss Cheese Management; Principle of swiss cheese management; Principle of Swiss Cheese Management; Freak accident; Unintentional injury; Acident; Mishappenings; Human error model; Accidentaly; Organisational models of accidents; List of accident types; Unintentional injuries; Accident model
n.
unexpected, unpleasant event
catastrophe
1) to have, meet with an accident (they had an accident during their trip)
2) to prevent accidents
3) an awful, bad, dreadful, frightful, horrible, nasty, serious, shocking; fatal; near; unavoidable; unfortunate accident
4) an automobile (AE), motorcar (BE); hit-and-run; hunting; industrial; railroad (AE), railway (BE), train accident
5) an accident occurs, takes place (a bad accident took place)
6) in an accident (he was in a hunting accident)
chance
luck
7) pure, sheer accident
8) an accident that + clause (it was pure accident that we met)
9) by accident (we discovered it by accident; it was by pure accident that we found the money)
accident
UNFORESEEN AND UNPLANNED EVENT OR CIRCUMSTANCE, OFTEN WITH A NEGATIVE OUTCOME
Accidents; Accidentally; Fatal accident; Misadventures; The Principle of Swiss Cheese Management; Organizational models of accidents; Principle Of Swiss Cheese Management; Principle of swiss cheese management; Principle of Swiss Cheese Management; Freak accident; Unintentional injury; Acident; Mishappenings; Human error model; Accidentaly; Organisational models of accidents; List of accident types; Unintentional injuries; Accident model
¦ noun
1. an unfortunate incident that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally.
2. something that happens by chance or without apparent cause.
chance: we met by accident.
3. Philosophy a property of a thing which is not essential to its nature.
Origin
ME (in the sense 'an event'): via OFr. from L. accident-, accidere, from ad- 'towards, to' + cadere 'to fall'.
Wikipedia
Accident
An accident is an unintended, normally unwanted event that was not directly caused by humans. The term accident implies that nobody should be blamed, but the event may have been caused by unrecognized or unaddressed risks.
Examples of use of ACCIDENT
1. He said the Swiss Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau was looking into the accident.
2. "Some people say accident, it may be an accident, it may be something else.
3. Deadly accident Two people were killed in a car accident close to Thessaloniki yesterday.
4. It‘s like the difference between researching a car accident and being in a car accident.
5. Yoweri Museveni÷ Garang‘s death may not have been an accident"Some people say accident.