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Contingency vs Incidence - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between contingency and incidence

is that contingency is (uncountable) the quality of being contingent, of happening by chance; unpredictability while incidence is the act of something happening; occurrence.

contingency

English

(wikipedia contingency)

Noun

  • (uncountable) The quality of being contingent, of happening by chance; unpredictability.
  • (countable) A possibility; something which may or may not happen. A chance occurrence, especially in finance, unexpected expenses.
  • (countable) An amount of money which a party to a contract has to pay to the other party (usually the supplier of a major project to the client) if he or she does not fulfill the contract according to the specification.
  • (logic, countable) A statement which is neither a tautology nor a contradiction.

    • Synonyms

    * (quality of happening by chance) possibility * See also

    Antonyms

    * (quality of happening by chance) inevitability, impossibility

    Coordinate terms

    * (statement which is neither a tautology nor a contradiction) contradiction, tautology

    Derived terms

    * contingency plan

    incidence

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia incidence) (en noun)
  • The act of something happening; occurrence
  • The extent, or the relative frequency of something happening
  • (physics) The striking of radiation or a projectile upon a surface
  • (epidemiology) A measure of the risk that a person develops a new condition within a specified period of time, usually a year.

    • Derived terms

    * angle of incidence * incidence algebra * incidence axiom * incidence function * incidence geometry * incidence graph * nonincidence

    Related terms

    * incident

    See also

    * prevalence

    External links

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