Hazard
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Hazard may mean:
- Dangers, risks, problems
- A hazard, for instance a natural hazard, a danger or source of danger, especially one threatening human safety.
- A hazard (computer architecture), a type of problem inherent in pipelined processors, including data hazard, branching hazard, and structural hazard.
- A hazard (logic), a fault or glitch in a digital logic system, including static hazard and dynamic hazard.
- A hazard pointer, a strategy to deal with reclaiming memory in multithreaded environments.
- A 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.
- A race hazard, a glitch caused by timing errors.
- 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.
- Other
- Hazard (game), a game of chance.
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