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

Synonyms:

hap, attendant, disaster, hazard, ensuant, side, parenthetical, adventure, thing, secondary, fortuity, development, happen, incidental, possibility, calamity, event, occasion, episode, accident, chance, resultant, misadventure, bye, study at occurrence, misfortune, nonessential, casualty, conflict, consequent, concomitant, sequent, peripheral, parenthetic, disturbance, accompanying, mishap, by, contingency

news, happening, occurrence, reality, situation, circumstance

Usage examples:

• He put an end to the incident, and led off into talk of quite a different kind. - "The Nether World", George Gissing.
• And yet, my dear fellow, you must allow that each incident in itself is capable of a more natural explanation." - "Round the Red Lamp Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life", Arthur Conan Doyle.
• The little incident had upset him, though for the life of him he could not imagine why. - "Four Weird Tales", Algernon Blackwood.