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n. A definite and separate occurrence; an event. See Synonyms at occurrence.

n. A usually minor event or condition that is subordinate to another.

n. Something contingent on or related to something else.

n. An occurrence or event that interrupts normal procedure or precipitates a crisis: an international incident.

adj. Tending to arise or occur as a result or accompaniment: "There is a professional melancholy . . . incident to the occupation of a tailor” ( Charles Lamb).

adj. Related to or dependent on another thing.

adj. Physics Falling upon or striking a surface: incident radiation.

n. An event or occurrence.

n. A relatively minor event that is incidental to, or related to others

n. An event that may cause or causes an interruption or a crisis

n. In safety, an incident of workplace illness or injury

adj. Arising as the result of an event, inherent

adj. (of a stream of particles or radiation) falling on or striking a surface (e.g. "The incident light illuminated the surface.")

adj. Falling or striking upon, as a ray of light upon a reflecting surface.

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.

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

adj. Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.

n. That which falls out or takes place; an event; casualty; occurrence.

n. That which happens aside from the main design; an accidental or subordinate action or event.

n. Something appertaining to, passing with, or depending on, another, called the principal.

Falling or striking upon something, as a ray of light or a projectile; impinging or acting upon anything from without.

Likely to happen; apt to occur; hence, naturally appertaining; necessarily conjoined.

Appertaining to or following another thing; conjoined as a subordinate to a principal thing; appurtenant: as, rent is incident to a reversion.

Subordinate; casual; incidental.

n. That which falls out or takes place; an occurrence; something which takes place in connection with an event or a series of events of greater importance.

n. A thing necessarily or frequently depending upon, appertaining to, or legally passing with another that is the principal or more important; a natural or characteristic accompaniment.

n. In decorative art, the representation of any action, often much conventionalized, but still to be recognized: thus, a frieze may consist of a number of incidents relating collectively some historical event.

Same as afferent

: noting the nerves which convey impressions from the periphery to the nervous centers.

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

n. a public disturbance

n. a single distinct event

adj. falling or striking of light rays on something

"If the materials have been selected to contribute to the main incident and converge toward it, it will follow that _the main incident_ will come last in the story; it"

parenthetic    secondary    peripheral    parenthetical    omissible   

disturbance    commotion    hoo-hah    flutter    kerfuffle    hoo-ha    hurly-burly    disruption    to-do   

incident train    incident proposition   

accident    occident    incidence   

incident room    incidental    coincident    aviation incident   

casual    fortuitous    befalling    adventure    accident    fact    circumstance    event    contingency    chance   

coincident   

event    circumstance    accident    scene    detail    adventure    episode    occurrence    fact    aspect