1. A definite and separate occurrence; an event. see synonyms at occurrence.
2. A usually minor event or condition that is subordinate to another.
3. something contingent on or related to something else.
4. an occurrence or event that interrupts normal procedure or precipitates a crisis: an international incident.
5. tending to arise or occur as a result or accompaniment: "there is a professional melancholy . . . incident to the occupation of a tailor” ( charles lamb).
6. related to or dependent on another thing.
7. physics falling upon or striking a surface: incident radiation.

1. an event or occurrence.
2. A relatively minor event that is incidental to, or related to others
3. an event that may cause or causes an interruption or a crisis
4. in safety, an incident of workplace illness or injury
5. arising as the result of an event, inherent
6. (of a stream of particles or radiation) falling on or striking a surface (e.g. "the incident light illuminated the surface.")

1. falling or striking upon, as a ray of light upon a reflecting surface.
2. coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.
3. liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.
4. dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.
5. that which falls out or takes place; an event; casualty; occurrence.
6. that which happens aside from the main design; an accidental or subordinate action or event.
7. something appertaining to, passing with, or depending on, another, called the principal.

1. falling or striking upon something, as a ray of light or a projectile; impinging or acting upon anything from without.
2. likely to happen; apt to occur; hence, naturally appertaining; necessarily conjoined.
3. appertaining to or following another thing; conjoined as a subordinate to a principal thing; appurtenant: as, rent is incident to a reversion.
4. subordinate; casual; incidental.
5. that which falls out or takes place; an occurrence; something which takes place in connection with an event or a series of events of greater importance.
6. A thing necessarily or frequently depending upon, appertaining to, or legally passing with another that is the principal or more important; a natural or characteristic accompaniment.
7. in decorative art, the representation of any action, often much conventionalized, but still to be recognized: thus, a frieze may consist of a number of incidents relating collectively some historical event.
8. same as afferent
9. : noting the nerves which convey impressions from the periphery to the nervous centers.

1. (sometimes followed by `to') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence
2. a public disturbance
3. a single distinct event
4. falling or striking of light rays on something