- dependence on chance or on the fulfillment of a condition; uncertainty; fortuitousness: Nothing was left to contingency.
- a contingent event; a chance, accident, or possibility conditional on something uncertain: He was prepared for every contingency.
- something incidental to a thing.
- a possible but not very likely future event or condition; eventuality
- (as modifier)
- something dependent on a possible future event
- a fact, event, etc, incidental to or dependent on something else
- (in systemic grammar)
- modification of the meaning of a main clause by use of a bound clause introduced by a binder such as if, when, though, or since
- (as modifier)
- logic
- the state of being contingent
- a contingent statement
- dependence on chance; uncertainty
- statistics
- the degree of association between theoretical and observed common frequencies of two graded or classified variables. It is measured by the chi-square test
- (as modifier)
