| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adverb | 1. Incidentally.[Websters]
2. In an inherent or intrinsic manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. In an accidental, fortuitous, casual or episodic manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. In a contingent or adventitious manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In an attendant or concomitant manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. In an odd or occasional manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. In a past or foregone manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. In a characteristic, distinctive or peculiar manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. In a previous or bygone manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Infrequently used adverbial inflection of the adjective incident.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective Form (incident) | 1. Falling or striking of light rays on something; "incident light".[Wordnet]. 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".[Wordnet]. 3. Falling or striking upon, as a ray of light upon a reflecting surface.[Websters]. 4. Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.[Websters]. 5. Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.[Websters]. 6. Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.[Websters]. 7. Being inherent, intrinsic or innate.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being accidental, contingent, haphazard, casual or fortuitous.[Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Being concomitant or accompanying.[Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Adjective base of the adverb incidently.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "INCIDENTLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1653. (references) |
Specialty Definition: INCIDENTLY
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Adverb] Occasionally; by the way.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Adverb] (obsolete) Alternative spelling of incidentally. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: incident
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| 13 de Marzo Incident | On July 13, 1994, 72 Cuban attempted to leave the island of Cuba on a World War II era tugboat named the 13 de Marzo. In an attempt by the Cuban Navy to stop the tugboat, patrol boats were sent out to interdict the tug. Crewmen and survivors reported that the interdiction vessels rammed the tugboat and sprayed its passengers with high pressure fire hoses, sweeping many overboard. A total of 41 men, women and children drowned after being swept off the tug’s deck, 11 of these were children under the age of 12. (references) | ||
| 3-19 shooting incident | On March 19 2004, the day before the Republic of China presidential election, President Chen Shui-bian and Vice President Annette Lu were both shot while campaigning in Tainan, in what then appeared to be a political assassination attempt. (references) | ||
| Afghanistan friendly fire incident | The Afghanistan friendly fire incident refers to the accidental killing of four Canadian soldiers and the injury of eight others from the Third Batallion of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (3PPCLI) on April 18, 2002 by an American F-16 fighter jet. The aircraft, piloted by U.S. Air National Guard Major Harry Schmidt, dropped a laser-guided 225-kilogram bomb on the Canadians who were on an exercise at Tarnak Farm, near Kandahar. (references) | ||
| Aizawa Incident | The Aizawa Incident was an assassination taking place in Japan 1935, significant in its initiation of the phase of a slide to militarization of the civil government. (references) | ||
| Altmark Incident | The Altmark Incident (Norwegian: Altmark-saken) was a naval skirmish of the Second World War between United Kingdom and Nazi Germany, occurring in at that time neutral Norwegian waters on 16 February 1940. The Altmark, a German supply ship with Norwegian escorts, was returning to Germany with 299 British merchant sailors on board, who had been picked up from ships sunk by the heavy cruiser Graf Spee, herself scuttled after the Battle of the River Plate in December 1939. It has the unusual distinction of being the last major boarding action fought by the Royal Navy. (references) | ||
| Area Major Incident Pool | Also known as Area Major Investigation Pool, and abbreviated to AMIP. (references) | ||
| Cash-Landrum incident | The Cash-Landrum Incident is a reported Unidentified Flying Object sighting the witnesses insist was responsible for damage to their health. It might be classified as a Close Encounter of the Second Kind, due to its reported physical effects on the witnesses. (references) | ||
| Changkufeng Incident | The Battle of Lake Khasan ( July 29, 1938 - August 11, 1938) and also known as the Changkufeng Incident (張鼓峰事件) in Japan, was an attempted military incursion of Manchukuo (Japanese) into the territory claimed by the Soviet Union. This incursion was founded in the beliefs of the Japanese side that the Soviet Union misinterpreted the demarkation of the boundary based on the Treaty of Nerchinsk between Imperial Russia and China (and subsequent supplementary agreements on demarkation), and furthermore, that the demarkation markers were tampered with. (references) | ||
| Chesapeake incident | The Chesapeake Incident happened on December 7 1863 when a group of confederates took the USS Chesapeake, a Northern ship doing a trade run from New York to Portland. The Southern hijackers wished to sell the Chesapeake's cargo and then purchase armaments and then transform the Chesapeake into a privateer in order to intercept and attack merchant ships from the North. Though, they did reach British territorial waters off the coasts of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, they were captured by two Northern warships on 16 December in St. Margaret's Bay in Nova Scotia. The warships also searched a Nova Scotian boat for possible refugees. These acts by the North and South seriously violated British neutrality. (references) | ||
| Chuck Wakely Incident | In 1964, Chuck Wakely flew a charter plane on route to Florida, USA. Flying over the Bermuda Triangle at about 2000 meters, Chuck claimed that the plane became surrounded by a mysterious light. The light became clearer and all electronic equipment ceased to function. After a while, the light disappeared and all electronics onboard started to function again. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: incident
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Aircraft incident | Energy | An occurrence, other than an accident, associated with the operation of an aircraft that affects or could affect the safety of operations and that is investigated and reported on FAA Form 8020-5. (references) | |
| Computer security incident | Physics | Any event or condition having actual or potentially adverse effects on an information system. See the Cyber Security Handbook. (references) | |
| Critical incident technique | Medicine | A set of procedures for collecting direct observations of human behavior in such a way as to facilitate their usefulness in solving practical problems and developing broad psychological principles. To be critical, the incident must make a significant difference in the outcome of the behaviors. Thus, a critical incident may be negative or positive in terms of its influence. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Exercise incident | Military | (DOD, NATO) An occurrence injected by directing staffs into the exercise which will have an effect on the forces being exercised, or their facilities, and which will require action by the appropriate commander and/or staff being exercised. (references) | |
| Explosive ordnance disposal incident | Military | (DOD, NATO) The suspected or detected presence of unexploded or damaged explosive ordnance which constitutes a hazard to operations, installations, personnel, or material. Not included in this definition are the accidental arming or other conditions that develop during the manufacture of high explosive material, technical service assembly operations or the laying of mines and demolition charges. (references) | |
| Extended attack incident | Mining | A wildland fire that has not been contained or controlled by initial attack forces and for which more firefighting resources are arriving, en route, or being ordered by the initial attack incident commander. (references) | |
| Hazardous Materials Incident | Security | Uncontrolled, unlicensed release of HazMat during storage or use from a fixed facility or during transport outside a fixed facility that may impact public health, safety, and/or the environment. (references) | |
| Hazmat Incident | Security | Actual or potential unplanned release of a hazardous material. (references) | |
| Incident action plan (IAP) | Mining | Contains objectives reflecting the overall incident strategy and specific tactical actions and supporting information for the next operational period. The plan may be oral or written. When written, the plan may have a number of attachments, including: incident objectives, organization assignment list, division assignment, incident radio communication plan, medical plan, traffic plan, safety plan, and incident map. (references) | |
| Incident Angle | Solar | The angle that a ray (of solar energy, for example) makes with a line perpendicular to the surface. For example, a surface that directly faces the sun has a solar angle of incidence of zero, but if the surface is parallel to the sun (for example, sunrise striking a horizontal rooftop), the angle of incidence is 90. The figure accompanying the description of airmass illustrates a solar angle of incidence of 48.2 to a horizontal surface. (references) | |
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