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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incidental \In`ci*den"tal\, n.
An incident; that which is incidental; esp., in the plural,
an aggregate of subordinate or incidental items not
particularized; as, the expense of tuition and incidentals.
--Pope.
Incidental \In`ci*den"tal\, a. Happening, as an occasional event, without regularity; coming without design; casual; accidental; hence, not of prime concern; subordinate; collateral; as, an incidental conversation; an incidental occurrence; incidental expenses.
By some, religious duties . . . appear to be regarded .
. . as an incidental business.
--Rogers.
Syn: Accidental; casual; fortuitous; contingent; chance; collateral. See Accidental. -- In`ci*den"tal*ly, adv. -- In`ci*den"tal*ness, n.
I treat either or incidentally of colors.
--Boyle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"casual, occasional," 1610s, from Medieval Latin incidentalis, from incidens (see incident (n.)). Incidentals (n.) "'occasional' expenses, etc.," is attested by 1707.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Loosely associated; existing as a byproduct, tangent, or accident. 2 Entering or approaching, prior to reflection (more frequently incident). n. incidental expense.
WordNet
n. (frequently plural) an expense not budgeted or not specified; "he requested reimbursement of $7 for incidental expenses" [syn: incidental expense, minor expense]
an item that is incidental
adj. (sometimes followed by `to') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence; "incidental expenses"; "the road will bring other incidental advantages"; "extra duties incidental to the job"; "labor problems incidental to a rapid expansion"; "confusion incidental to a quick change" [syn: incident] [ant: basic]
following as a consequence; "an excessive growth of bureaucracy, with related problems"; "snags incidental to the changeover in management" [syn: accompanying, attendant, concomitant, incidental to(p)]
not of prime or central importance; "nonessential to the integral meanings of poetry"- Pubs.MLA [syn: nonessential]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "incidental".
Sverdlov had simply installed a framework to support his refashioned accelerator rings, antimagnetic shielding circuits, and incidental wires, tubes, grids, capacitors, transformers.
And to them, with the big domestic demand, bluejack is not an incidental thing.
This suffering was not merely incidental to dissections, but in many of the experiments recorded WAS DELIBERATELY INFLICTED.
The evidence for the existence of the earlier chapel throws so much light upon the way in which figures have been shifted about and whole chapels have disappeared, leaving only an incidental trace or two behind them in some other of those now existing, that I shall not hesitate to reproduce it here.
Chapter VIII Hybridism Distinction between the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids -- Sterility various in degree, not universal, affected by close interbreeding, removed by domestication -- Laws governing the sterility of hybrids -- Sterility not a special endowment, but incidental on other differences -- Causes of the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids -- Parallelism between the effects of changed conditions of life and crossing -- Fertility of varieties when crossed and of their mongrel offspring not universal -- Hybrids and mongrels compared independently of their fertility -- Summary.
The foregoing rules and facts, on the other hand, appear to me clearly to indicate that the sterility both of first crosses and of hybrids is simply incidental or dependent on unknown differences, chiefly in the reproductive systems, of the species which are crossed.
The general fertility of varieties does not seem to me sufficient to overthrow the view which I have taken with respect to the very general, but not invariable, sterility of first crosses and of hybrids, namely, that it is not a special endowment, but is incidental on slowly acquired modifications, more especially in the reproductive systems of the forms which are crossed.
We have also the diary of Gaspar de Leza, who was Chief Pilot of the expedition, and whose shrewd incidental remarks are particularly interesting.
As incidental to the establishment of an office Congress has also the power to determine the qualifications of the officer, and in so-doing necessarily limits the range of choice of the appointing power.
But matters are involved here which demand specific investigation and cannot be treated as incidental merely to our present problem.
League and Melungeon bills, the incidental fruits of the poker game that gained him the use of the cruiser.
The way I have phrased this criterion implies that we should begin by looking for the biochemical and cellular changes and then on this basis seek the neurophysiological ones, and that in some way the neurophysiology is a mere incidental product of the biochemical and structural changes.
Moreover, in actions on contracts made in other States, a State constitutionally may decline to enforce in its courts, as contrary to its own policy, the laws of such States relating to the right to add interest to the recovery as an incidental item of damages.
Dylan tried to keep it breezy, an incidental turndown that could have gone either way.
Though he professed to care little for motive as apart from human interest, his incidental touches of description are unsurpassably vivid.