home/glossary/hazard

hazard

nounid 2713·updated May 9, 2026
verified

A natural or man-made source or cause of harm or difficulty.

polysemous

Classifications

Entity Type

Threat72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
chancerisk
alternatephrasing
Hazard
plural
hazards
possessive
hazard's
pluralpossessive
hazards'

Framework definitions

National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon1 senseview framework →
§1
A natural or man-made source or cause of harm or difficulty.
Wordset Dictionary3 sensesview framework →
§1
an obstacle on a golf course
§2
an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
§3
a source of danger

Outgoing relationships

related

Incoming relationships

No incoming triples
No other term currently asserts a relationship to this one.