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Definition hazard
Etymology
From Middle English hasard, from Old French hasart (“a game of dice”) (noun), hasarder (verb), probably from Arabic ????????? (az-zahr, “the dice”). Compare Spanish azar, Portuguese azar.
Noun
hazard (countable and uncountable, plural hazards)
- (historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
- Chance. [from 16th c.]
- The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss. [from 16th c.]
- An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally. [from 19th c.]
- (in driving a vehicle) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
- (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
- (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
- (obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
- (tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served.
- (programming) A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.
Verb
hazard (third-person singular simple present hazards, present participle hazarding, simple past and past participle hazarded)
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