contingency

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.

Synonyms:

predicament, likelihood, emergency

something incidental to a thing.

1. a possible but not very likely future event or condition; eventuality

2. ( as modifier )

   a contingency plan

something dependent on a possible future event

a fact, event, etc, incidental to or dependent on something else

1. 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 Compare adding

2. ( as modifier )

   a contingency clause

logic

1. the state of being contingent

2. a contingent statement

dependence on chance; uncertainty

statistics

1. the degree of association between theoretical and observed common frequencies of two graded or classified variables. It is measured by the chi-square test

2. ( as modifier )

   a contingency table

   the contingency coefficient