incident

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)An event or occurrence.

   “She could not recall the time of the incident.”

   “It was an incident that he hoped to forget.”

   “The suspect was released without further incident.”

   “Where else in the world can you pre-order sushi and fondue on some of the trains, travel in family carriages equipped with mini-playgrounds, or use a request stop button at some small stations? Where else can you hear the announcement: "The train at Platform 4 is ten minutes late due to an incident in another country," as I did once at the Swiss station of Spiez?”

2. (countable, uncountable)A (relatively minor) event that is incidental to, or related to others.
3. (countable, uncountable)An event that causes or may cause an interruption or a crisis, such as a workplace illness or a software error.
4. (countable, often, uncountable)An event that causes or may cause an interruption or a crisis, such as a workplace illness or a software error.

adj

1. (not-comparable)Arising as the result of an event, inherent.

   “No major hazards incident to this job.”

   “It is at this juncture that Toder launches into the familiar and troubling topic of monogamy versus non-monogamy. She outwardly expresses no preference for either option, considering each to hold certain consequences incident to it.”

2. (not-comparable)Falling on or striking a surface.

   “The incident light illuminated the surface.”

3. (not-comparable)Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.

   “As the ordinary course of common affairs is disposed of by general laws, so likewise men's rarer incident necessities and utilities should be with special equity considered.”

4. (not-comparable)Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.

   “All chances incident to mans frail life.”

   “17th century, Richard Milward, "Preface" to Seldeniana the studies incident to his profession”

   “The Vives, like the strangles, is most incident to young horses, and usually proceeds from the same causes, such as catching cold, being over-heated, or over-worked, about the time of shedding their teeth.”

5. (not-comparable)Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.
6. (not-comparable)In a relation of incidence

   “The second inequality follows from the fact that all the edges incident with a fixed vertex separate [an arbitrary graph] G.”

   “If there is only one ideal point U and only one ideal line u, then either (i) every point in u is incident with a line in U, or else (ii) no point in u is incident with any line of U.”