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Definition of Accidental

1. Noun. A musical notation that makes a note sharp or flat or natural although that is not part of the key signature.

2. Adjective. Happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally. "An accidental shooting"

Definition of Accidental

1. a. Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.

2. n. A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.

Definition of Accidental

1. Adjective. Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous ¹

2. Adjective. Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental ¹

3. Adjective. (context: music) Foreign to the key signature or a proper harmony. ¹

4. Noun. A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally. ¹

5. Noun. (context: painting pluralonly) 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. ¹

6. Noun. (context: music) A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Accidental

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Accidental

1. Something that happens unexpectedly or by chance. (18 Nov 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Accidental

acciaccaturas acciaccature accidence accidences accident accident-blackspot accident-prone accident and emergency accident blackspot accident blackspots

accident neurosis accident of birth accident proneness accident surgery accident waiting to happen accidental (current term) accidental abortion accidental falls accidental host accidental hypothermia

accidental image accidental injury accidental murmur accidental point accidental symptom accidentalism accidentalist accidentalists accidentality accidentally

Literary usage of Accidental

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1907)
"In Modes I, II, Ш, IV, IX, and X, it must be made to do so by means of an accidental. The Major Third, thus artificially supplied, in Modes in which it ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"During the early stages of accidental hemorrhage blood clot stimulates the ... If accidental hemorrhage follows severe traumatism the patient's shock ..."

3. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1922)
"Quoted by Essen-Moeller, qv OLDFIELD, C., and HANN, RG Acute toxaemia of pregnancy, with acute nephritis and accidental haemorrhage; caesarean hysterectomy; ..."

4. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1900)
"accidental CAUSES WHICH MAY INCREASE THE INFLUENCE OF THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT External security of the Union—Army of six thousand men—Few ships —The ..."

5. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck (1906)
"1 And the same is"said to be the case among various other savages or barbarians.2 However, this want of discrimination between intentional and accidental ..."

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