accidental 音标拼音: [
, æksəd'ɛntəl] [
, æksəd'ɛnəl]
a . 意外的,偶然的
n . 非本质属性
意外的,偶然的非本质属性
accidental adj 1 :
happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally ;
"
with an inadvertent gesture she swept the vase off the table "; "
accidental poisoning "; "
an accidental shooting "
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synonym : {
accidental }, {
inadvertent }]
n 1 :
a musical notation that makes a note sharp or flat or natural although that is not part of the key signature Accidental \
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a . [
Cf .
F .
accidentel ,
earlier accidental .]
1 .
Happening by chance ,
or unexpectedly ;
taking place not according to the usual course of things ;
casual ;
fortuitous ;
as ,
an accidental visit .
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1913 Webster ]
2 .
Nonessential ;
not necessary belonging ;
incidental ;
as ,
are accidental to a play .
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{
Accidental chords } (
Mus .),
those which contain one or more tones foreign to their proper harmony .
{
Accidental colors } (
Opt .),
colors depending on the hypersensibility of the retina of the eye for complementary colors .
They are purely subjective sensations of color which often result from the contemplation of actually colored bodies .
{
Accidental point } (
Persp .),
the point in which a right line ,
drawn from the eye ,
parallel to a given right line ,
cuts the perspective plane ;
so called to distinguish it from the principal point ,
or point of view ,
where a line drawn from the eye perpendicular to the perspective plane meets this plane .
{
Accidental lights } (
Paint .),
secondary lights ;
effects of light other than ordinary daylight ,
such as the rays of the sun darting through a cloud ,
or between the leaves of trees ;
the effect of moonlight ,
candlelight ,
or burning bodies . --
Fairholt .
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Syn :
Casual ;
fortuitous ;
contingent ;
occasional ;
adventitious .
Usage : {
Accidental }, {
Incidental }, {
Casual }, {
Fortuitous },
{
Contingent }.
We speak of a thing as accidental when it falls out as by chance ,
and not in the regular course of things ;
as ,
an accidental meeting ,
an accidental advantage ,
etc .
We call a thing incidental when it falls ,
as it were ,
into some regular course of things ,
but is secondary ,
and forms no essential part thereof ;
as ,
an incremental remark ,
an incidental evil ,
an incidental benefit .
We speak of a thing as casual ,
when it falls out or happens ,
as it were ,
by mere chance ,
without being prearranged or premeditated ;
as ,
a casual remark or encounter ;
a casual observer .
An idea of the unimportant is attached to what is casual .
Fortuitous is applied to what occurs without any known cause ,
and in opposition to what has been foreseen ;
as ,
a fortuitous concourse of atoms .
We call a thing contingent when it is such that ,
considered in itself ,
it may or may not happen ,
but is dependent for its existence on something else ;
as ,
the time of my coming will be contingent on intelligence yet to be received .
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Accidental \
Ac `
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n .
1 .
A property which is not essential ;
a nonessential ;
anything happening accidentally .
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He conceived it just that accidentals . . .
should sink with the substance of the accusation . --
Fuller .
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2 .
pl . (
Paint .)
Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow .
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3 . (
Mus .)
A sharp ,
flat ,
or natural ,
occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature ,
but before a particular note .
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1913 Webster ]
139 Moby Thesaurus words for "
accidental ":
accessory ,
accident ,
accidentally ,
accompanying ,
addendum ,
addition ,
additional ,
adjunct ,
ado ,
adscititious ,
adventitious ,
afloat ,
afoot ,
aleatory ,
appendage ,
appurtenance ,
appurtenant ,
ascititious ,
auxiliary ,
breve ,
by -
the -
way ,
casual ,
casually ,
causeless ,
chance ,
chancy ,
circumstantial ,
coincident ,
coincidental ,
collateral ,
conditional ,
contingency ,
contingent ,
crotchet ,
current ,
demisemiquaver ,
dependent ,
destinal ,
dicey ,
doing ,
dominant ,
dominant note ,
double whole note ,
eighth note ,
enharmonic ,
enharmonic note ,
eventuating ,
extra ,
fatal ,
fatidic ,
flat ,
fluky ,
fortuitous ,
fortuitously ,
going on ,
half note ,
happening ,
happenstance ,
hemidemisemiquaver ,
iffy ,
in hand ,
in the wind ,
inadvertent ,
incidental ,
indeterminate ,
inessential ,
lucky ,
mere chance ,
minim ,
musical note ,
natural ,
nonessential ,
not -
self ,
note ,
occasional ,
occurring ,
odd ,
on ,
on foot ,
ongoing ,
other ,
parenthetical ,
passing ,
patent note ,
prevailing ,
prevalent ,
provisional ,
quarter note ,
quaver ,
random ,
report ,
responding note ,
resultant ,
risky ,
secondary ,
semibreve ,
semiquaver ,
serendipitous ,
shaped note ,
sharp ,
sixteenth note ,
sixty -
fourth note ,
spiccato ,
staccato ,
subsidiary ,
superadded ,
superaddition ,
superfluous ,
supervenient ,
supplement ,
supplemental ,
supplementary ,
sustained note ,
taking place ,
tercet ,
thirty -
second note ,
tone ,
triplet ,
unanticipated ,
uncalculated ,
uncaused ,
under way ,
undesigned ,
undetermined ,
unessential ,
unexpected ,
unforeseeable ,
unforeseen ,
unintended ,
unintentional ,
unlooked -
for ,
unlucky ,
unmeant ,
unplanned ,
unpredictable ,
unpremeditated ,
unpurposed ,
unwitting ,
whole note
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