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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contingency \Con*tin"gen*cy\, n.; pl. Contingencies. [Cf. F. contingence.]
Union or connection; the state of touching or contact. ``Point of contingency.''
--J. Gregory.-
The quality or state of being contingent or casual; the possibility of coming to pass.
Aristotle says we are not to build certain rules on the contingency of human actions.
--South. -
An event which may or may not occur; that which is possible or probable; a fortuitous event; a chance.
The remarkable position of the queen rendering her death a most important contingency.
--Hallam. An adjunct or accessory.
--Wordsworth.-
(Law) A certain possible event that may or may not happen, by which, when happening, some particular title may be affected.
Syn: Casualty; accident; chance.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, "quality of being contingent," from contingent + -cy. Meaning "a chance occurrence" is from 1610s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The quality of being contingent, of happening by chance; unpredictability. (1560s) 2 (context countable English) A possibility; something which may or may not happen. A chance occurrence, especially in finance, unexpected expenses. (1610s) 3 (context countable English) An amount of money which a party to a contract has to pay to the other party (usually the supplier of a major project to the client) if he or she does not fulfill the contract according to the specification. 4 (context logic countable English) A statement which is neither a tautology nor a contradiction.
WordNet
n. a possible event or occurrence or result [syn: eventuality, contingence]
the state of being contingent on something
Wikipedia
In philosophy and logic, contingency is the status of propositions that are neither true under every possible valuation (i.e. tautologies) nor false under every possible valuation (i.e. contradictions). A contingent proposition is neither necessarily true nor necessarily false. Propositions that are contingent may be so because they contain logical connectives which, along with the truth value of any of its atomic parts, determine the truth value of the proposition. This is to say that the truth value of the proposition is contingent upon the truth values of the sentences which comprise it. Contingent propositions depend on the facts, whereas analytic propositions are true without regard to any facts about which they speak.
Along with contingent propositions, there are at least three other classes of propositions, some of which overlap:
- Tautological propositions, which must be true, no matter what the circumstances are or could be (example: "It is the case that the sky is blue or it is not the case that the sky is blue.").
- Contradictions which must necessarily be untrue, no matter what the circumstances are or could be (example: "It's raining and it's not raining.").
- Possible propositions, which are true or could have been true given certain circumstances (examples: x + y = 4; There are only three planets; There are more than three planets). All necessarily true propositions, and all contingent propositions, are also possible propositions.
Contingency may refer to
- Contingency (philosophy), in philosophy and logic
- Contingent fee in commercial matters
- Contingency management in medicine
- Contingency plan in planning
- Contingency table in statistics
- Contingent claims in finance
- Contingent liability in law
- Contingent vote in politics
- Contingent work and contingent workforce, an employment relationship
- Cost contingency in business risk management
- Contractual terms, upon which agreed outcomes are contingent
Usage examples of "contingency".
We certainly do recognize the need to insist on the creative powers of virtuality, but this Bergsonian discourse is insufficient for us insofar as we also need to insist on the reality of the being created, its ontological weight, and the institutions that structure the world, creating necessity out of contingency.
If however, by reason of infidelity to the Constitutional provisions in some sections, if by violence in resisting them in others, it be suggested that they should have been drawn with greater circumspection, with a broader comprehension of all the contingencies of the future, the fact yet remains that they are of priceless value to the Government and the people.
Bond made up his mind that Le Chiffre would in no circumstances try to rob the caisse and he put the contingency out of his mind.
This I promised, at the same time determining to do my best to guard against the contingency, as sleeping in the loft of a Gallegan hut, though preferable to passing the night on a moor or mountain, is anything but desirable.
At contingency landing sites and tracking stations around the world, from NORAD in Colorado to the international airfield at Banjul, Gambia, men and women watched the clock.
B-52s over Haiphong and Hanoi still lay a year in the future, though contingency plans had come close to execution several times since 1969.
They had a look of health and of exigence: one felt that no distant country would intimidate them, no contingency give them anxiety, no moment dare remain unfulfilled.
Contingency plans for a Turkish front--clumsily code-named Pilgrim--were drawn up, but the White House would be asking a lot from the Turks.
Constitution for the illustration they may afford of the interests, ideas, and contingencies which have from time to time influenced the Court in this still supremely important area of its powers and of the comparable factors which give direction to its work in the same field at the present time.
The wall was a living brickwork of locksheets, laminated charts, one hundred thousand charts to the inch, the wall preselected and preassembled for all imaginable contingencies of the journey which, each time afresh, took the ship across half-unknown immensities of time and space.
Dart to correct its course in the face of unforeseen contingencies and later recorrect itself, landing precisely where it was scheduled to come down.
In the outposts girls will climb the rockiest cliffs to avoid such a contingency.
While l-have every faith that the Fuhrer will be able to stop the Soviet forces, I have, of course, made contingency plans for the evacuation of this stalag and its prisoners to the west.
She was fascinated by their delicate little hands and feet, and their enlarged buttocks, a recognized anatomical peculiarity named steatopygia, which enabled them to store food like a camel stores water, against the contingencies of the wilderness.
The second says that what we can investigate in experimental animals are behaviours in response to contingencies of reinforcement.