Definitions For Chance

noun

• A risk involving danger
• 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
• An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
• The possibility of future success
• A possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
• An opportunity to do something : an amount of time or a situation in which something can be done
• The possibility that something will happen
• The way that events happen when they are not planned or controlled by people

verb

• Come upon, as if by accident; meet with
• Take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
• Be the case by chance
• To accept the danger of (doing something)

adjective

• Occurring or appearing or singled out by chance