Usually means: Event or occurrence causing disruption.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. incident: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. incident: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. incident: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. incident: Collins English Dictionary
  5. incident: Vocabulary.com
  6. INcident, Incident, incident: Wordnik
  7. incident: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. incident: Wiktionary
  9. incident: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. incident: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. incident: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. incident: Dictionary.com
  13. incident: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. incident: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Incident (Scientology), Incident (film), Incident (graph theory), Incident, The Incident (Lost), The Incident (Modern Family), The Incident (album), The Incident (conspiracy), The Incident (disambiguation), The Incident, The incident: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Incident: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. incident: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. incident: Rhymezone
  19. incident, incident (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. incident: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. incident: Free Dictionary
  22. incident: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. incident: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. incident: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. incident: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. incident: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. incident: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. incident: Medical dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scientology® and Dianetics® (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Incident: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. incident, incident: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Incident: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable, uncountable) An event or occurrence.
noun:  A (relatively minor) event that is incidental to, or related to others.
noun:  An event that causes or may cause an interruption or a crisis, such as a workplace illness or a software error.
adjective:  Arising as the result of an event, inherent.
adjective:  (physics, of a stream of particles or radiation) Falling on or striking a surface.
adjective:  Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.
adjective:  Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.
adjective:  (law) Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.

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