hazard🔊

The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.

An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.

(in driving a vehicle) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.

(golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.

(billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (''winning hazard'') or the player's ball (''losing hazard'').

(historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.

(chance_16th) Chance.

(obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.

(tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served.

(programming) A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.

To expose to chance; to take a risk.

To risk (something); to venture, incur, or bring on.