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Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous
  • music Foreign to the key signature or a proper harmony.
  • Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental
  • unintentional; by accident

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Noun:

  • A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
  • in plural|painting 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.
  • music A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.

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