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Meaning of chance

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  chance
      adj 1: occurring or appearing or singled out by chance; "seek
             help from casual passers-by"; "a casual meeting"; "a
             chance occurrence" [syn: {casual}, {chance(a)}]
      n 1: a possibility due to a favorable combination of
           circumstances; "the holiday gave us the opportunity to
           visit Washington"; "now is your chance" [syn:
           {opportunity}, {chance}]
      2: an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event
         to result one way rather than another; "bad luck caused his
         downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance" [syn:
         {luck}, {fortune}, {chance}, {hazard}]
      3: a risk involving danger; "you take a chance when you let her
         drive"
      4: a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a
         number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole
         number of cases possible; "the probability that an unbiased
         coin will fall with the head up is 0.5" [syn: {probability},
         {chance}]
      5: the possibility of future success; "his prospects as a writer
         are excellent" [syn: {prospect}, {chance}]
      v 1: be the case by chance; "I chanced to meet my old friend in
           the street"
      2: take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; "When you buy
         these stocks you are gambling" [syn: {gamble}, {chance},
         {risk}, {hazard}, {take chances}, {adventure}, {run a risk},
         {take a chance}]
      3: come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea
         in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not
         very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in
         the bookstore the other day" [syn: {find}, {happen},
         {chance}, {bump}, {encounter}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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