accidental vs consequent

accidental

adj
  • Pertaining to accident and not essence; thus, inessential; incidental; secondary. 

  • Occurring sometimes, by chance; occasional. 

  • Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; by accident, unintentional. 

  • Being a double point with two distinct tangent planes in 4-dimensional projective space. 

  • Adjusted by one or two semitones, in temporary departure from the key signature. 

  • Nonessential to something's inherent nature (especially in Aristotelian thought). 

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. 

  • A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally. 

  • A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note. 

  • Part of a text that has a mainly structural purpose, such as spelling, punctuation, or capitalization. 

consequent

adj
  • Of or pertaining to consequences. 

  • Following as a result, inference, or natural effect. 

  • Of a stream, having a course determined by the slope it formed on. 

noun
  • An event which follows another. 

  • The second term of a ratio, i.e. the term b in the ratio a:b, the other being the antecedent. 

  • A consequent stream. 

  • The second half of a hypothetical proposition; Q, if the form of the proposition is "If P, then Q." 

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