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- (noun): A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
- (noun): 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.
- (noun): A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.
- (noun): Part of a text that has a mainly structural purpose, such as spelling, punctuation or capitalization.
- (adjective): Not essential; incidental, secondary.
- (adjective): Nonessential to something's inherent nature (especially in Aristotelian thought).
- (adjective): Adjusted by one or two semitones, in temporary departure from the key signature.
- (adjective): Occurring sometimes, by chance; occasional.
- (adjective): Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; by accident, unintentional.
- (adjective): Being a double point with two distinct tangent planes in 4-dimensional projective space.