Usually means: Notes altering pitch, not diatonic.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. accidentals: Merriam-Webster
  2. accidentals: Collins English Dictionary
  3. accidentals: Vocabulary.com
  4. Accidentals, accidentals: Wordnik
  5. accidentals: Wiktionary
  6. accidentals: Dictionary.com
  7. The Accidentals: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Accidentals: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Accidentals: Legal dictionary

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  1. Accidentals: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Accidentals: Medical dictionary

(Note: See accidental as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (accidental)

adjective:  Pertaining to accident and not essence; thus, inessential; incidental; secondary.
adjective:  (philosophy) Nonessential to something's inherent nature (especially in Aristotelian thought).
adjective:  (music) Adjusted by one or two semitones, in temporary departure from the key signature.
adjective:  Occurring sometimes, by chance; occasional.
adjective:  Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; by accident, unintentional.
adjective:  (geometry) Being a double point with two distinct tangent planes in 4-dimensional projective space.
noun:  A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
noun:  (painting, plural only) Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.
noun:  (music) A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.
noun:  Part of a text that has a mainly structural purpose, such as spelling, punctuation, or capitalization.
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