0 something bad that happens that is not expected or intended and that often damages something or injures someone: --
1 an event not intended by anyone but which has the result of injuring someone or damaging something: --
He was killed in an automobile accident at the age of 21.
2 something that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally: --
It is surely no accident that this particular formulation, 'amor de lonh', has come to encapsulate the basic experience of 'courtly love'.
Furthermore, it is also known that the phonological correspondences established early in development are less vulnerable to neurological accident than those established later.
For each of the matching criteria an index is constructed over the set of accidents.
Later, about forty-five seconds in, you begin to hear two simultaneous lead voices, an arrangement gambit that also came about by accident.
By sheer accident, an empty trolley, nobody aboard, is starting to roll down a certain track.
Some of the widows may have lost their husbands in mine accidents or because of occupational diseases.
The majority are based around actual or fictitious events with a mildly anti-establishment character, often involving personal and physical threats or accidents.
Originally, the principles of bioethics were a means for protecting human rights, but through a historical accident, bioethical principles came to be considered as fundamental.
