Usually means: Not on purpose; unintentionally occurred.
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  1. by accident: Merriam-Webster
  2. by accident: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. by accident: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. by accident: Wiktionary
  5. by accident: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Definitions from Wiktionary (by accident)

adverb:  Accidentally; unintentionally; without meaning to; as the result of an event not expected, aided, or willingly planned.
adverb:  As the result of some undesigned, unintended, unrelated, natural, or random occurrence; as the unexpected and unforeseen result of formerly unrelated factors.
adverb:  By chance; unexpectedly; as the result of an unrelated series of events.
adjective:  Accidental; as the result of some unforeseen happening or series of events; unexpected; resulting from an event without the foresight, expectation, aid, or design of the person by whose agency it was caused; unintentional.

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