Harm

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

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An undesired outcome [whose] cost exceeds some threshold[; ...] the key points in the definition of safety are that: costs have to be sufficiently high in some human sense for events to be harmful, and that safety involves reducing both the probability of expected harms and the possibility of unexpected harms.

polysemousEngineering safety in machine learning

Senses

3 more senses beyond the canonical

Wordset Dictionary

the act of damaging something or someone

Wordset Dictionary

the occurrence of a change for the worse

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any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

8 surface forms

synonym: damagehurtimpairmentinjurytrauma
plural: Harms
possessive: Harm's
pluralpossessive: Harms'

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