By Chance Meaning
Definition: Accidentally, without prior planning. If something happens by chance, no one has planned for it to happen. It is an accident, a random occurrence, and it may or may not happen again.
What is the word for when something happens by chance?
In this page you can discover 10 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for by-chance, like: fortuitously, by-mistake, accidentally, unexpectedly, unwittingly, circumstantially, haply, by luck, perchance and unintentionally.
What is an event occurring by chance called?
The probability of an event is the likelihood of that event occuring. Probability is a value between (and including) zero and one. ... An event with a probability of 0.5 [P(E) = 0.5] is sometimes called a fifty-fifty chance event or an even chance event.