Usually means: Occurring as a minor consequence.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word incidental:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. incidental: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. incidental: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. incidental: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. incidental: Collins English Dictionary
  5. incidental: Vocabulary.com
  6. Incidental, incidental: Wordnik
  7. incidental: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. incidental: Wiktionary
  9. incidental: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. incidental: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. incidental: Dictionary.com
  12. incidental: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Incidental: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. incidental: Rhymezone
  15. incidental: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. incidental: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. incidental: Free Dictionary
  18. incidental: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. incidental: Dictionary/thesaurus
  20. incidental: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. incidental: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. incidental: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. incidental: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  3. incidental: Medical dictionary

(Note: See incidentals as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Loosely associated; of limited relevance except indirectly; only accidentally related.
adjective:  Existing tangentially, being a byproduct, a tangent, or a likely consequence.
adjective:  Occurring by chance.
adjective:  (physics, of radiation) Entering or approaching, prior to reflection (more frequently incident).
noun:  Minor items, not further defined. Incidental expense.
noun:  Something that is incidental.

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