accidental

Meanings

Plural: accidentals

Noun

• a musical notation that makes a note sharp or flat or natural although that is not part of the key signature
• 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.
• Part of a text that has a mainly structural purpose, such as spelling, punctuation, or capitalization.

Adjective Satellite

• happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally
  • "accidental poisoning"
  • "an accidental shooting"

Adj

• Pertaining to accident and not essence; thus, inessential; incidental; secondary.
• Pertaining to accident and not essence; thus, inessential; incidental; secondary.
• Nonessential to something's inherent nature (especially in Aristotelian thought).
• Adjusted by one or two semitones, in temporary departure from the key signature.
• Occurring sometimes, by chance; occasional.
• Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; by accident, unintentional.
• Being a double point with two distinct tangent planes in 4-dimensional projective space.

Synonyms

accidental, accidentary, adventitious, by accident, by the by, casual, causeless, chanceable, circumstantial, contingent, fortuitous, inadvertent, incidental, lippening, occasional, random, serendipitous, unforeseen, unintended, unintentional, unplanned

Antonyms

impossible, inevitable, intentional

Related Words

accident, accidentally

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