Contingency

1. n. A certain possible event that may or may not happen, by which, when happening, some particular title may be affected.
2. n. Union or connection; the state of touching or contact.
3. n. The quality or state of being contingent or casual; the possibility of coming to pass.
4. n. An event which may or may not occur; that which is possible or probable; a fortuitous event; a chance.
5. n. An adjunct or accessory.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.