<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Dependent for existence, occurrence, character, etc., on something not yet certain</li><li>Conditional (often followed by on or upon): Our plans are contingent on the weather.</li><li>Liable to happen or not; uncertain; possible: They had to plan for contingent expenses.</li><li>Happening by chance or without known cause; fortuitous; accidental: contingent occurrences.</li><li>Logic (of a proposition) neither logically necessary nor logically impossible, so that its truth or falsity can be established only by sensory observation.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A quota of troops furnished.</li><li>Any one of the representative groups composing an assemblage: the New York contingent at a national convention.</li><li>The proportion that falls to one as a share to be contributed or furnished.</li><li>Something contingent; contingency.</li></ul>