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Definition of Accidental
Accidental

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

Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play.

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

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.

A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.

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Accidental Quotations

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.
Bertrand Russell

Accidents, try to change them it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
Pablo Picasso

The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.
Branford Marsalis

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
J. B. Priestley

Accidental Translations

accidental in Dutch is incidenteel, toevallig
accidental in Finnish is muu
accidental in French is malheureuxse, accidentel
accidental in Italian is accidentale, infelice
accidental in Portuguese is acidental
accidental in Spanish is fortuito, accidental


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