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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)

1. (historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
2. Chance. [from 16th c.]
3. The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss. [from 16th c.]
4. An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally. [from 19th c.]
5. (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.
6. (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
7. (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
8. (obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
9. (tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served.
10. (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)

1. To expose to chance; to take a risk.
2. To risk (something); to venture, to incur, or bring on.

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