(from Latin, con: mutual, tangere: to touch) If something is contingent it is dependent on something else happening. It does not mean the same as ‘dependent’: contingent implies that two events will probably (but not certainly) occur with...

. Normally, neither necessary nor impossible. See...

For contingency in estimates, see Cost contingency. In philosophy and logic, contingency is the status of facts that are not logically necessarily true or false. Contingency is opposed to necessity: a contingent act is an act which could have not been,...