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Definition of Chance event
1. Noun. Anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause. "It was due to an accident or fortuity"
Generic synonyms: Happening, Natural Event, Occurrence, Occurrent
Specialized synonyms: Hap, Break, Good Luck, Happy Chance, Coincidence, Happenstance, Lottery
Derivative terms: Accidental
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chance Event
Literary usage of Chance event
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Mathematical Analysis by Frank Loxley Griffin (1922)
"When we speak of the turn of a coin as a "chance event. ... And we sum all this
up in calling the turn of the coin a "chance event. ..."
2. Educational Psychology by Edward Lee Thorndike (1921)
"... human beings so differ as to make the distribution that of a chance event,
the surface of frequency being that of the probability integral. ..."
3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"Death from chance event, out of usual course. Where the policy included death
from any unexpected chance event out of the usual course of things, ..."
4. Administration of the College Curriculum by William Trufant Foster (1911)
"... individuals representing a single species, the distribution of any trait not
then influenced by natural selection appears to be that of a chance event. ..."
5. An Elementary Logic by John Edward Russell (1906)
"Thus, chance and probability can characterize the same event, — it is a chance
event, because its particular cause is not known; it is a probable event, ..."
6. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"(2) A chance event is one that can be accounted for after it has happened, or
predicted before it happens, by the law of PROBABILITY (qv). ..."
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