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Contingence

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A joining or touching.

n. Contingency.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Contact; touching.

n. angle of contingence: the infinitesimally small angle between the circumference of a circle and its tangent at the point of contact, or the angle between two tangents to a curve at consecutive points.

n. line of contingence: a tangent; a contingent line; a tangent line.

n. Contingency.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. See contingency.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a possible event or occurrence or result

Word Usage

"Condemning theory because it lends itself to certain political doctrines is also inappropriate as binding it to a particular contingence is violence to it."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

occurrent happening occurrence natural event

Variant

contingency