Hazard

Hazard may mean:

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• A danger or source of danger, especially one threatening human safety (e.g. a natural hazard).
• Hazard (game), a game of chance.
• Race hazard, a glitch caused by timing errors.
• Hazard (computer architecture), a problem inherent in pipelined processors.
• Hazard pointer, a strategy to deal with reclaiming memory in multithreaded environments.
• Moral hazard, the name given to the risk that one party to a contract can change their behaviour to the detriment of the other party once the contract has been concluded.
• Hazard, Kentucky, a city in the United States of America.
• Hazard, Nebraska, a village in the United States of America and the setting of a song by Richard Marx.
 
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