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WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Accidental (disambiguation)

Accidental         
·adj Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play.
II. Accidental ·noun A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
III. Accidental ·noun A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.
IV. Accidental ·adj Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.
V. Accidental ·noun 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.
accidental         
¦ adjective
1. happening by accident.
2. incidental.
3. Philosophy relating to or denoting properties not essential to a thing's nature.
¦ noun
1. Music a sign indicating a momentary departure from the key signature by raising or lowering a note.
2. Ornithology another term for vagrant.
Derivatives
accidentally adverb
accidental         
a.
1.
Casual, fortuitous, contingent, that happens by chance, not designed, not planned, unintended, chance, undesigned, not purposed.
2.
Incidental, adventitious, non-essential, immaterial, dispensable, not absolutely requisite, de facto but not de jure, that has merely happened to be.

Wikipedia

Accidental

Accidental may refer to:

  • Accidental (music), a symbol which changes the pitch of a note
  • Accidental (album), by Fred Frith
  • Accidental (biology), a biological phenomenon more commonly known as vagrancy
  • The Accidental, a 2005 novel by Ali Smith
  • The Accidental (band), a UK folk band
  • Accidental property, a philosophical term
Examples of use of Accidental
1. Accidental fire Police said they believed the fire was accidental.
2. But the accidental decapitation heightened tensions further.
3. Accidental spy, accidental author, now accidental inspiration for a movie that is already being tipped as a possible Oscar winner – the makers have pushed the release date back to November 23 with the Academy in mind.
4. Before an accidental injury in November 2003, the last accidental wounding of a colleague by a police marksman was in 1''7.
5. Coroner Sheriff Payne suggested one of two verdicts: accidental death or an open verdict, from which the jury picked accidental," the court representative said.