accidental

Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; by accident, unintentional.

Adjusted by one or two semitones, in temporary departure from the key signature.

Pertaining to accident and not essence; thus, inessential; incidental; secondary.

Nonessential to something's inherent nature (especially in Aristotelian thought).

Occurring sometimes, by chance; occasional.

Being a double point with two distinct tangent planes in 4-dimensional projective space.

A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.

A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.

Part of a text that has a mainly structural purpose, such as spelling, punctuation, or capitalization.

[plural only] Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.