Dictionary Definition
incident adj
1 falling or striking on something
2 (sometimes followed by `to') minor or casual or
subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance
concomitant or consequence; "incidental expenses"; "the road will
bring other incidental advantages"; "extra duties incidental to the
job"; "labor problems incidental to a rapid expansion"; "confusion
incidental to a quick change" [syn: incidental] [ant: basic]
Noun
1 a single distinct event
2 a public disturbance; "the police investigated
an incident at the bus station"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Etymology
From incidentem.Noun
- An event or occurrence
- A relatively minor event that is incidental to, or related to others
- An event that causes an interruption or a crisis
Translations
event or occurrence
- Danish: begivenhed
- Dutch: Gebeurtenis
- Finnish: tapaus, tapahtuma
- German: Vorfall, Begebenheit, Ereignis, Geschehnis
- Japanese: 事故 (jiko)
- Korean: 사건 (sageon)
- Swedish: händelse, incident, tilldragelse
minor event incidental to others
- Finnish: tapaus
- German: Vorfall, Begebenheit, Ereignis, Geschehnis
event causing interruption or crisis
- Finnish: välikohtaus, selkkaus
- German: Vorfall, Störfall (technical), Ereignis
- Swedish: olyckshändelse, tillbud
Adjective
Derived terms
Translations
arising as the result of an event
- Finnish: johtuva
physics: falling on a surface
- Finnish: lankeava
- German: einfallend
- ttbc Dutch: voorval , incident
- ttbc Estonian: vahejuhtum
- ttbc Icelandic: Atburður
- ttbc Telugu: సంఘటన, జరిగిన సంగతి, కథ
See also
Extensive Definition
Incident may refer to:
- A property of a graph (mathematics) (see also glossary of graph theory)
- Incident, Culfest of NITK Surathkal, a cultural festival of The National Institute of Technology in Surathkal, Karnataka, India
- Incident management, the activities of an organization to identify, analyze and correct hazards
- Incident (Scientology), a concept in Scientology
The Incident may refer to:
- The Incident, a 1967 film.
- The Incident, an event in British history that took place in 1641.
See also
incident in French: Incident
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
action,
adventure, affair, anagnorisis, angle, architectonics, architecture, argument, atmosphere, background, catastrophe, characterization,
circumstance,
color, commotion, complication, condition, conjuncture, contingency, continuity, contrivance, denouement, design, development, device, disturbance, do, episode, event, eventuality, experience, fable, fact, falling action, fracas, gimmick, hap, happening, happenstance, juncture, line, local color, matter of fact,
mood, motif, movement, mythos, occasion, occurrence, particular, peripeteia, phenomenon, plan, plot, proceeding, reality, recognition, rising action,
scene, scheme, secondary plot, set-to,
skirmish, slant, story, structure, subject, subplot, switch, thematic development,
theme, to-do, tone, topic, turn of events, twist, upset