Incident vs Shadowcasting - What's the difference?
incident | shadowcasting |
An event or occurrence.
A relatively minor event that is incidental to, or related to others
An event that may cause or causes an interruption or a crisis
In safety, an incident of workplace illness or injury
Arising as the result of an event, inherent
(physics) (of a stream of particles or radiation ) falling on or striking a surface (e.g. "The incident light illuminated the surface.")
Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.
* Hooker
Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.
* Milton
* Milward
(legal) Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.
The generation of shadows from a three-dimensional model.
* 1979 , Kevin Forseth, David Vaughan, Graphics for Architecture (page 191)
(microscopy) A technique in which an incident ray at a small angle to the horizontal casts a shadow, thus making an object easier to see.
As nouns the difference between incident and shadowcasting
is that incident is an event or occurrence while shadowcasting is the generation of shadows from a three-dimensional model.As an adjective incident
is arising as the result of an event, inherent.incident
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* incidental * aviation incident * coincident * incident roomAdjective
(-)- As the ordinary course of common affairs is disposed of by general laws, so likewise men's rarer incident necessities and utilities should be with special equity considered.
- all chances incident to man's frail life
- the studies incident to his profession
shadowcasting
English
Noun
(-)- A different shadowcasting arrangement results when light rays are oriented oblique to the picture plane. In this situation actual and bearing rays appear to vanish in perspective.