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Notebook, 1993-

RELATIONSHIPS

Contingency







To have contact with . . . . Dependent for existence, occurrence, character, etc., on something not yet certain; conditional . . . . Likely but not certain to happen: possible . . . . Not logically necessary . . . . Subject to or Happening by chance or the unforseen . . . . . . . . Without known cause; fortuitous; accidental . . . . Befall, Unpredictable . . . . Intended for use in circumstances not completely forseen . . . . something liable to happen as an adjunct to or result of something else . . . . may but is not certain to occur . . . . Neither logically necessary nor logically impossible.


C O N S I D E R:

An Existence, occurrence, character conditional [on or upon . . . . ]

Neither necessary nor impossible


dependent

Conditional

Fortuitous

Accidental


Chance

Incidental



R  E  F  E  R  E  N  C  E  S 
1 Contingent adj [ME, fr. MF, fr. L contingent-, cntin- gens, prp. of contingere to have contact with, befall, fr. com- + sangere to touch -more at Tangent] [14c] 1: likely but not certain to happen: possible 2: not logically necssary; esp: Empirical 3a: happening by chance or unforseen causes b: subject to chance or unseen effects: Unpredictable c: intended for use in circumstances not completely forseen 4: dependent on or conditioned by something else 5: not necessitated: determined by free choice syn see Accidental

2 Contingent n [1548] 1: something contingent: contingency 2: a representative group: Delegation, Detachment

Contingency n [1561] 1: the quality or state of being contingent 2: a contingent event or condition: as a: an event [as an emergency] that may but is not certain to occur [trying to provide for every __] b: something liable to happen as an adjunct to or result of something else -syn. see Juncture

Contingency table n [ca. 1947]: a table of data in whihc the row entries tabulate the data according to one variable and the column entries tabulate it according to another variable and which is used esp. in the study of the correlation between variables

[Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th Edition. Springfield, MA, USA: Merriam-Webster, Inc. 1995.]



Contingent 1. dependent for existence, occurrence, character, etc., on something not yet certain; conditional [often fol. by on or upon]: Our plans are contingent on the weather. 2. happening by chance or without known cause; fortuitous; accidental. 3. Logic. [of a proposition] neither logically necessary nor logically impossible. -4. a quota of troops furnished. 5. any one of the representative groups composing an assemblage. 6. something contingent; contingency. [late ME < L contingent- (s. of contingéns, prp. of contingere) = con- CON- + ting-, var. s. of tang(ere) (to) touch + -ent- -ENT]

Contingency 1. dependence on chance or on the fulfillment of a condition. 2. an uncertain event; chance; possibility: He was prepared for every contingency. 3. something incidental.

[Urdang, Laurence, ed. Random House Dictionary of The English Language. New York: Random House,1968.]




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