hazard
Signification
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- The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
- An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
- An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
- A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
- The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
- A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
- Chance.
- (obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
- The side of the court into which the ball is served.
- 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.
Fréquence
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/ˈhæ.zɚd/
Étymologie
From Middle English hasard, from Old French hasart (“a game of dice”) (noun), hasarder (verb), from Arabic اَلزَّهْر (az-zahr, “the dice”). Compare Spanish azar, Portuguese azar.
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