accident

  • 51accident — avarija statusas T sritis Energetika apibrėžtis Netikėtas gamybos proceso sutrikimas, transporto priemonės, agregato ar įrenginio gedimas, dėl kurio patiriama didelių materialinių nuostolių ir skaudžių nelaimių. atitikmenys: angl. accident vok.… …

    Aiškinamasis šiluminės ir branduolinės technikos terminų žodynas

  • 52accident — [14] Etymologically, an accident is simply ‘something which happens’ – ‘an event’. That was what the word originally meant in English, and it was only subsequently that the senses ‘something which happens by chance’ and ‘mishap’ developed. It… …

    Word origins

  • 53accident — noun /ˈæk.sə.dənt/ a) An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences. to die by an accident b) Any chance event. Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Syn: befalling,… …

    Wiktionary

  • 54accident — In Aristotelian metaphysics an accident is a property of a thing which is no part of the essence of the thing: something it could lose or have added without ceasing to be the same thing or the same substance. The accidents divide into categories …

    Philosophy dictionary

  • 55Accident — A medieval philosophic concept indicating the material body of an object, as distinct from its essence (referred to as substance ). Thus in eucharistic transubstantiation the accident of the bread, i.e. its material quality as bread, was believed …

    Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

  • 56accident — See accident, mishap …

    Dictionary of problem words and expressions

  • 57accident — Synonyms and related words: accessary, accessory, accidental, addendum, addition, adjunct, adventure, appendage, appurtenance, auxiliary, blow, blunder, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, chance, chance hit, collateral, collision, coming …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 58Accident — person born from an unplanned pregnancy: I was definitely an accident …

    Dictionary of Australian slang

  • 59accident — Australian Slang person born from an unplanned pregnancy: I was definitely an accident …

    English dialects glossary

  • 60accident — An occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft that takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flying until the time that all such persons have disembarked, in which i. A person is fatally or… …

    Aviation dictionary