contingent

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something in the future.
2. That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share.
3. A quota of troops.

Adj

1. Possible or liable, but not certain, to occur.
2. Dependent on something that is undetermined or unknown, that may or may not occur.
3. Not logically necessarily true or false.
4. Temporary.

Conceptos

contingente

eventual

contingencia

cuota

destacamento

posible

posiblemente

a lo mejor

condicionado

cupo

acaso

incierto

accidental

Opuesto a

certain, inevitable, necessary, impossible

Sinónimos

possible

accidental

chance

🎲

casual

fortuitous

dependent

potential

incidental

random

contingent on

dependent upon

contingent upon

dependant upon

coincidental

detail

division

eventual

section

department

dependant on

dependent on

occasional

depending on

likely

probable

iffy

irregular

manageable

maybe

nodding

pendant

pendent

pendulous

perhaps

pit

platoon

possibility

practicable

precinct

presumable

presumptive

prospective

provisional

quotas

retained

scratch

segment

side

special

squad

Traducciones

contingent

contingente

éventuel

contingent

contingente

Kontingent

eventuell

contingent

eventual

gebeurlijk

möglich

eventual

eventueel

conditionnel

etwaig

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/kənˈtɪn.d͡ʒənt/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: -

In summary

From Middle English, from Old French contingent, from Medieval Latin contingens (“possible, contingent”), present participle of contingere (“to touch, meet, attain to, happen”), from com- (“together”) + tangere (“to touch”).