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Definition of Accident
Accident

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.

A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.

A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.

A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute.

A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.

Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident.

Unusual appearance or effect.

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Accident Quotations

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Albert Einstein

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
Thomas Carlyle

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Plato

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
Mark Twain

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
Mohandas Gandhi

Accident Translations

accident in Afrikaans is ongeluk
accident in Dutch is ongeluk, accident, ongeval
accident in Finnish is tapaturma
accident in French is accident
accident in Hungarian is baleset
accident in Italian is incidente, accidente
accident in Latin is casus, casus
accident in Norwegian is ulykke
accident in Portuguese is acidente
accident in Spanish is desgracia, accidente


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