Definition of Contingency

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Contingency

Union or connection; the state of touching or contact.

The quality or state of being contingent or casual; the possibility of coming to pass.

An event which may or may not occur; that which is possible or probable; a fortuitous event; a chance.

An adjunct or accessory.

A certain possible event that may or may not happen, by which, when happening, some particular title may be affected.

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Contingency Quotations

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.
John Polkinghorne

I knew it to be very doubtful whether the Cabinet, Parliament, and the country would take this view on the outbreak of war, and through the whole of this week I had in view the probable contingency that we should not decide at the critical moment to support France.
Edward Grey

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.
Penelope Lively

The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.
Heinz R. Pagels

Contingency Translations

contingency in Dutch is eventualiteit
contingency in French is contingence
contingency in Spanish is contingencia, eventualidad

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