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.

Television

• The Dukes of Hazzard

Other

• Hazard (game), a game of chance.
• Hazard (song), a song by Richard Marx

See also

• Worker safety and health

Arabic words

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