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/ˌaksəˈden(t)l/
adjective
  1. happening by chance, unintentionally, or unexpectedly.
    "a verdict of accidental death"
    synonyms: fortuitous, chance, occurring by chance/accident, adventitious, fluky, coincidental, casual, serendipitous, random, aleatory, unexpected, unforeseen, unanticipated, unlooked-for, unintentional, unintended, inadvertent, involuntary, unplanned, unpremeditated, unthinking, unmeant, unwitting, unknowing, unconscious, subconscious, mistaken, misguided
  2. incidental; subsidiary.
    "the location is accidental and contributes nothing to the tension between the characters in the poem"
    synonyms: incidental, unimportant, by the way, by the by, supplementary, subsidiary, subordinate, secondary, marginal, minor, lesser, accessory, peripheral, tangential, extraneous, extrinsic, parenthetical, irrelevant, immaterial, beside the point, of little account, unnecessary, nonessential, inessential
  3. (in Aristotelian thought) relating to or denoting properties which are not essential to a thing's nature.

noun
  1. a sign indicating a momentary departure from the key signature by raising or lowering a note.
    "horn parts are usually written without key signature, the necessary accidentals being added"
  2. another term for vagrant.

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