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adj. Liable to occur but not with certainty; possible: "All salaries are reckoned on contingent as well as on actual services” ( Ralph Waldo Emerson).

adj. Dependent on conditions or occurrences not yet established; conditional: arms sales contingent on the approval of Congress. See Synonyms at dependent.

adj. Happening by chance or accident; fortuitous. See Synonyms at accidental.

adj. Logic True only under certain conditions; not necessarily or universally true: a contingent proposition.

n. An event or condition that is likely but not inevitable.

n. A share or quota, as of troops, contributed to a general effort.

n. A representative group forming part of an assemblage.

n. An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future; a contingency.

n. That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share; proportion;

n. a quota of troops.

adj. Possible or liable, but not certain to occur; incidental; casual.

adj. Dependent on something that is undetermined or unknown.

adj. Dependent on something that may or may not occur.

adj. Not logically necessarily true or false.

adj. Possible, or liable, but not certain, to occur; incidental; casual.

adj. Dependent on that which is undetermined or unknown.

adj. Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur.

n. An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future; a contingency.

n. That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share; proportion; esp., a quota of troops.

Not existing or occurring through necessity; due to chance or to a free agent; accidentally existing or true; hence, without a known or apparent cause or reason, or caused by something which would not in every case act; dependent upon the will of a human being, or other finite free agent.

Dependent upon a foreseen possibility; provisionally liable to exist, happen, or take effect in the future; conditional: as, a contingent remainder after the payment of debts; a journey contingent upon the receipt of advices; a contingent promise.

n. An event dependent either upon accident or upon the will of a finite free agent; an event not determinable by any rule.

n. That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a quota; specifically, the share or proportion of troops to be furnished by one of several contracting powers; the share actually furnished: as, the Turkish contingent in the Crimean war.

n. a gathering of persons representative of some larger group

adj. determined by conditions or circumstances that follow

adj. possible but not certain to occur

n. a temporary military unit

adj. uncertain because of uncontrollable circumstances

"And if there is such an idea as the idea of a contingent being ” if ˜contingent being™ is a meaningful phrase ”, then there would seem to be such an idea as the complement of that idea, the idea of a necessary being, the idea of a being of which it is false that it might not have existed."

conditional    possible    uncertain   

gathering    assemblage    military group    force    military unit   

conditional    contingent remainder    future contingent    contingent matter    contingent line   

contingent claim    contingency    contingence    contact   

contingentness   

incidental    casual    contingency    proportion    possible   

astringent    stringent   

detachment    corps    squadron    delegation    squad