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contingency
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contingency n. an event that might not occur.

contingency noun accident, befalling, casus, chance, circumstance, circumstantial event, coincidence, conditional event, contingence, contingent, contingent event, dependdnt event, doubtful event, fortune, hap, happening, incident, luck, occurrence, possibility, uncertain event, uncertainty, unforeseen occurrence, unintentional happening
Associated concepts: contingency contract, double continnency, unavoidable contingency, unforeseen contingency, unusual or extraordinary contingencies
Foreign phrases: Casus fortuitus non est sperandus, et nemo tenetur devinare.A fortuitous event is not to be exxected, and no one is bound to foresee it.
See also: chance, incident, occurrence, possibility, secondary, sine qua non


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The maximum reported turbulence intensity at each 50 mb pressure level within 6 hours of the sounding time were arranged in a 6 x 5 contingency table with ranges of breaking wave drag computed from nearby soundings (Table 2).
Diagnosing and forecasting aircraft turbulence with steepening ... by McCann, Donald W. / National Weather Digest
Relate the magnitude of the kappa to the maximum attainable kappa for the contingency table concerned, as well as to 1; this provides an indication of the effect of imbalance in the marginal totals on the magnitude of kappa.
The kappa statistic in reliability studies: use, interpretation, and ... by Wright, Chris C. / Physical Therapy
C, n l, n2) of the contingency table followed a uniform distribution; the 5% and 95% values of the distribution from this analysis yielded the 95% CI for completeness.
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