incident

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   (sometimes followed by `to') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence

   incidental expenses

2. 2
   adj

   falling or striking of light rays on something

   incident light

3. 3
   noun

   a public disturbance

   the police investigated an incident at the bus station

4. 4
   noun

   An event or occurrence.

   She could not recall the time of the incident.

5. 5
   adj

   Arising as the result of an event, inherent.

   No major hazards incident to this job.

6. 6
   adj

   Falling on or striking a surface.

   The incident light illuminated the surface.

7. 7
   adj

   Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.

   As the ordinary course of common affairs is disposed of by general laws, so likewise men's rarer incident necessities and utilities should be with special equity considered.

8. 8
   adj

   Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.

   All chances incident to mans frail life.

Etymology

Recorded since 1412, from Middle French incident, from Latin incidens, the present active participle of incidō (“to happen, befall”), itself from in- (“on”) + -cidō, the combining form of cadō (“to fall”).