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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun vis major has 1 sense
- vis major(n = noun.event) act of god, force majeure, inevitable accident, unavoidable casualty - a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events; "he discovered that his house was not insured against acts of God" is a kind of calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy
CIDE DICTIONARY
vis major, [L. major greater.].
A superior force which under certain circumstances is held to exempt from contract obligations; inevitable accident; -- a civil-law term used as nearly equivalent to, but broader than, the common-law term act of God (which see). [Webster 1913 Suppl.]