accident : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: accident	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for accident
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
accident n an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause; "winning the lottery was a happy accident"; "the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck"; "it was due to an accident or fortuity" Synonym(s): accident, stroke, fortuity, chance event
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Accident \Ac"ci*dent\, n. [F. accident, fr. L. accidens, -dentis, p. pr. of accidere to happen; ad + cadere to fall. See {Cadence}, {Case}.] 1. Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident. Of moving accidents by flood and field. --Shak. Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident: It is the very place God meant for thee. --Trench. 2. (Gram.) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case. 3. (Her.) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms. 4. (Log.) (a) A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute. (b) A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness. 5. Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident. This accident, as I call it, of Athens being situated some miles from the sea. --J. P. Mahaffy. 6. Unusual appearance or effect. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Note: Accident, in Law, is equivalent to casus, or such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Accident, MD (town, FIPS 225) Location: 39.62694 N, 79.32088 W Population (1990): 349 (155 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 21520