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 other ...
, 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 whic ...
, 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 e ...
'', a 2005 novel by Ali Smith
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The Accidental (band)
The Accidental were a folk band from the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the European ma ...
, 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" ...
, 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 def ...
(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 pla ...
, 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 order and does not follow an intelligible pattern or combination. Individual rando ...
, which often is used incorrectly where ''accidental'' or ''adventitious'' would be appropriate
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