Accidental may refer to:
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Accidental (music)
In music, an accidental is a note of a pitch (or pitch class) that is not a member of the scale or mode indicated by the most recently applied key signature. In musical notation, the sharp (), flat (), and natural () symbols, among others, ma ...
, a symbol which changes the pitch of a note
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''Accidental'' (album), by Fred Frith
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Accidental (biology)
Vagrancy is a phenomenon in biology whereby an individual animal (usually a bird) appears well outside its normal range; they are known as vagrants. The term accidental is sometimes also used. There are a number of poorly understood factors which ...
, a biological phenomenon more commonly known as vagrancy
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The Accidental
''The Accidental'' is a 2005 novel by Scottish author Ali Smith. It follows a middle-class English family who are visited by an uninvited guest, Amber, while they are on holiday in a small village in Norfolk. Amber's arrival has a profound ef ...
'', a 2005 novel by Ali Smith
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The Accidental (band)
The Accidental were a folk band from the United Kingdom, made up of members of The Bicycle Thieves, Tunng and The Memory Band. The band members were Stephen Cracknell of The Memory Band, Sam Genders of Tunng, Hanna Caughlin of The Bicycle Thieves ...
, a UK folk band
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Accidental property
An accident (Greek ), in metaphysics and philosophy, is a property that the entity or substance has contingently, without which the substance can still retain its identity. An accident does not affect its essence. It does not mean an "accident" as ...
, a philosophical term
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Accidence
In linguistic morphology, inflection (or inflexion) is a process of word formation in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, mood, animacy, and defin ...
(or inflection), a modification of a word to express different grammatical categories
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Accident (disambiguation)
An accident is an unexpected and unintended event.
Accident or accidents may also refer to:
Principal word senses
* Accident, an unintended, normally unwanted event not directly caused by humans
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Adventitious Important structures in plant development are buds, shoots, roots, leaves, and flowers; plants produce these tissues and structures throughout their life from meristems located at the tips of organs, or between mature tissues. Thus, a living plant a ...
, which is closely related to "accidental" as used in philosophy and in biology
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Random
In common usage, randomness is the apparent or actual lack of pattern or predictability in events. A random sequence of events, symbols or steps often has no :wikt:order, order and does not follow an intelligible pattern or combination. Ind ...
, which often is used incorrectly where ''accidental'' or ''adventitious'' would be appropriate
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