Definition of incedent
1. incident [ n ] a single distinct event
Used in print:(Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)
The famous author tells us of the strange incident in Something_About_Myself .
(Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)
There is no_more `` plot '' than that ; only slightly more , perhaps , than a newspaper account of such an incident would give .
(Brand Blanshard, "The Emotive Theory," Robert...)
If anyone asked us , after we made the remark that the suffering was a bad thing , whether we should think it relevant to what we said to learn that the incident had never occurred and no pain had been suffered at_all , we should say that it made all the difference in_the_world , that what we were asserting to be bad was precisely the suffering we thought had occurred back there , that if this had not occurred , there was nothing left to be bad , and that our assertion was in that case mistaken .
But suppose that a week later we revert to the incident in thought and make our statement again .
(Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)
Finding him dead , Cook caught Russell 's horse and rode to the cattle foreman 's house to report the incident and request bloodhounds to trail the assassins .
Synonyms incident Related Terms happening scene infection cause_celebre sideshow episode2. incident [ a ] falling or striking on something
Used in print:(Francis J. Johnston and John E. Willard, "The...)
Relative incident light intensities were measured with a thermopile potentiometer system .
The last column shows the rate of exchange that would have been observed at a relative intensity of 4 ( 14.7 cm. distance ) calculated on the assumptions that the incident light intensity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance of the lamp from the cell and that the rate is directly proportional to the incident light intensity .
The last column shows the rate of exchange that would have been observed at a relative intensity of 4 ( 14.7 cm. distance ) calculated on the assumptions that the incident light intensity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance of the lamp from the cell and that the rate is directly proportional to the incident light intensity .
Direct proportionality of the rate to the incident intensity has also been assumed in obtaining the value in the last column for the fourth sample of series /2 , where the light intensity was reduced by use of a screen .
(J. F. Vedder, "Micrometeorites", in Francis S. J...)
The data provide a measure of the total mass of cosmic material incident upon the Earth .
Synonyms incident Related Terms incidence3. incident [ a ] (sometimes followed by `to') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence
Examples:
"incidental expenses"
"the road will bring other incidental advantages"
"extra duties incidental to the job"
4. incident [ n ] a public disturbance
Examples: : "the police investigated an incident at the bus station"
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