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noun
Contact; touching.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Contingency.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a possible event or occurrence or result
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: eventuality, contingency
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
History
Borrowed from Latin contingentia (whence con- + and -ence), from contingēns, present passive participle of contingō (“to make contact with, to be touching”).
Across languages
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
