incident
An event or occurrence.
Example
“She could not recall the time of the incident.”
Other meanings
A (relatively minor) event that is incidental to, or related to others.
An event that causes or may cause an interruption or a crisis, such as a workplace illness or a software error.
Related words
- cyberincident
- incidency
- incidentless
- nonincident
- preincident
- seroincident
- subincident
- coincident
- incidental
- incident report
- incident ticket system
- vaxident
Example sentences
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “incident” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.