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hazard

1. Golf an obstacle such as a bunker, a road, rough, water, etc.
2. a gambling game played with two dice
3. Real Tennis
a. the receiver's side of the court
b. one of the winning openings
4. Billiards a scoring stroke made either when a ball other than the striker's is pocketed (winning hazard) or the striker's cue ball itself (losing hazard)
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Hazard

A material or condition that may cause damage, injury, or other harm, frequently established through standardized assays performed on biological systems or organisms. The confluence of hazard and exposure create a risk.
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hazard

[′haz·ərd]
(industrial engineering)
Any risk to which a worker is subject as a direct result (in whole or in part) of his being employed.
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Under this category of the test, the court will determine whether foreseeability of being haled into the forum existed based on product hazardousness, severity of injury, and revenue generated/number of products sold in the forum.
The average workers' compensation lost-time claim frequency rate, which we use as a proxy for the hazardousness of the workplace, was 2.7 claims per 100 workers.
Because tropes differ from schemes in causing semantic disruption, tropic conformatio (personification) manifests itself in a derangement and blending of categories pivotal to metaphor: hence Quintilian's stress on the boldness and hazardousness of the enterprise.
The inherent hazardousness and environmental damage of these products did not dissuade the company from producing and using them.
The act's inherent hazardousness is best illustrated by an incident that occurred in 1983 during a performance in Kazakhstan while they were performing with a Russian circus.
consequently, we use the number of inspections of a plant (during the sample period), NUMINSP, as a proxy for the plant's hazardousness, when not modeling heterogeneity with plant-specific fixed effects.
The methodology has been developed for evaluating the hazardousness of damages potentially suffered during car operation on the basis of the amount of energy absorbed.
Characteristics of contaminants (the highest concentration of heavy metals, mg/kg; class of hazardousness; soil permeability coefficients, depending on the type of heavy metals (obtained within the programme according to metal).
Further more, predicting of leaching behavior and chemistry of different compounds in semicoke is very important in order to assess the environmental hazardousness of semicoke as well as to determine the applicability of different technologies for this solid waste disposal and possible reuse.
Highlighting the significant potential offered by use of recycling resources, Parliament emphasises the need for further recovery targets and standards for waste streams which have a considerable environmental impact owing to their quantity or hazardousness and which, because of their negative or low value, offer no or scarcely any market incentives for recovery, with particular reference to construction and demolition waste (some 22% of total waste) and commercial and industrial waste (some 26% of the total amount of waste and 75% of total hazardous waste).
In other work involving consumer products that varied in hazardousness, older adults rated products overall as less hazardous than did younger adults (Wogalter, Jarrard, & Simpson, 1994); however, risk perception for specific product types was not reported in that study, only overall risk perception averaged across products.
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