chance events
Unplanned things happening
Chance events are occurrences that happen unpredictably, without apparent cause or design.
The phrase emphasizes randomness rather than intention or pattern: Chance events brought them together, The experiment controlled for chance events.
In probability and statistics, chance events are outcomes whose occurrence cannot be determined in advance, only assigned likelihoods.
- coin tossRandom two-outcome selection
- roll of the diceRandom chance outcome
- contingencyUncertain possible event
- indeterminacyLack of fixed outcome
- coincidenceUnplanned matching of events
randomness · serendipity · stroke of luck · luck · blind luck · fortuity · butterfly effect · sliding doors moment · twist of fate · happenstance · uncertainty · synchronicity · genetic mutation · accident · freak accident · act of God · aleatory · anomaly
- unpredictablessurprises, randomness, uncertainty, unpredictables, wild cards