Hazard_(disambiguation)

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A hazard is an event posing a threat to life, health, property or environment. Hazard may also refer to:

• Chemical hazard, a property of a material dangerous to human life or health
• A hazard, for instance a natural hazard, a danger or source of danger, especially one threatening human safety
• Hazard (computer architecture), a type of problem inherent in pipelined processors, including data hazard, branching hazard, and structural hazard
• Hazard (logic), a fault or glitch in a digital logic system, including static hazard and dynamic hazard
• 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
• Race hazard, a glitch caused by timing errors
• Hazard symbol, easily recognizable symbols designed to warn about hazardous materials or locations

People, groups

• B.J. Nilsen, a Swedish sound artist who goes by the alias Hazard
• Paul Hazard, a French historian of ideas

Places

• Hazard, Kentucky, a city in the USA
• Hazard, Nebraska, a village in the USA and the setting of a song by Richard Marx

Television

• The Dukes of Hazzard
• Hazard, a Middlewight battlebot from BattleBots

Other

• Hazard (game), a game of chance
• A water hazard or a bunker in golf
• Hazard (song), a song by Richard Marx
• Hazard function, another name for the failure rate
• Hazard (ship), a ship wrecked off Broken Bay, Australia in 1809.

See also

• Hazards, a magazine published in the United Kingdom
• Hazzard (disambiguation)
• Worker safety and health
• Precautionary statements
• Philosophy of probability

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