Incidence - English meaning

Incidence – definitions in English dictionary

noun
The occurrence, rate, or frequency of a disease, crime, or other undesirable thing.
Usage examples:
An increased incidence of cancer
Synonims:
Occurrence Prevalence Commonness Rate Frequency Amount Degree Quantity Extent
noun
The intersection of a line, or something moving in a straight line, such as a beam of light, with a surface.
Usage examples:
The point of incidence of the beam

The relative frequency of occurrence of something

noun
The rate at which something happens
Usage examples:
There’s been an increased incidence of cancer in the area.

noun
The rate at which something happens
Usage examples:
Increase/decrease/reduce the incidence of sth we intend to reduce the incidence of loan defaults by…

Incidence translation into English

Incidence: translate from English into Chinese

发病率, 发生率

Incidence: translate from English into Dutch

Incidentie, Inval, Verbreiding, Gebied

Incidence: translate from English into French

Incidence, Fréquence, Taux, Angle d'incidence

Incidence: translate from English into German

Vorfall, Häufigkeit, Einfall, Vorkommen

Incidence: translate from English into Hindi

घटना, भार, पैमाना, व्यापकता, शामिल करना, संयोग, आपात, विस्तार

Incidence: translate from English into Italian

Incidenza

Incidence: translate from English into Korean

투사, 낙하, 범위

Incidence: translate from English into Russian

Заболеваемость, Падение, Сфера действия, Охват, Наклон, Угол атаки, Скос

Incidence: translate from English into Spanish

Incidencia, Frecuencia, Morbosidad, Extensión

Word origin

late Middle English (denoting a casual or subordinate event): from Old French, or from medieval Latin incidentia, from Latin incidere ‘fall upon, happen to’ (see incident). incidence (sense 1

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Incidence – similar words

incident

noun
An instance of something happening; an event or occurrence.
Usage examples:
Several amusing incidents

adjective
Liable to happen because of; resulting from.
Usage examples:
The changes incident to economic development

Incident - all meanings in English

Incidence synonims

amount

noun
A quantity of something, especially the total of a thing or things in number, size, value, or extent.
Usage examples:
Sport gives an enormous amount of pleasure to many people

verb
Come to be (the total) when added together.
Usage examples:
Losses amounted to over 10 million pounds

noun
The degree to which something is a lot or a little; how much something is
Usage examples:
She’s made a tremendous amount of progress since the accident., he liked to carry a large amount of…

Amount - all meanings in English

degree

noun
The amount, level, or extent to which something happens or is present.
Usage examples:
A degree of caution is probably wise

noun
An amount or level of something
Usage examples:
[ c ] this job demands a high degree of skill., [ c ] the house had also been damaged, but to a les…

Degree - all meanings in English

extent

noun
The area covered by something.
Usage examples:
An enclosure ten acres in extent

noun
The area, length, or size of something
Usage examples:
Approaching the airport, you could see the full extent of the island., to some extent it was my fau…

Extent - all meanings in English

frequency

noun
The rate at which something occurs over a particular period of time or in a given sample.
Usage examples:
An increase in the frequency of accidents due to increased overtime

noun
The number of times that a wave is produced within a particular period, esp. within one second
Usage examples:
Dogs can hear very high frequencies., houses are sold here with greater frequency than in most othe…

noun
The number of times something happens within a particular period, or the fact of something happening often or a large number of times
Usage examples:
Once a week is a good frequency to back up all the data., the frequency of sth cost-conscious retai…

Frequency - all meanings in English

occurrence

noun
An incident or event.
Usage examples:
Vandalism used to be a rare occurrence

Occurrence - all meanings in English

prevalence

noun
The fact or condition of being prevalent; commonness.
Usage examples:
The prevalence of obesity in adults

noun
The fact of something existing or happening often
Usage examples:
They noted the prevalence of this attitude among leading financial experts.

Prevalence - all meanings in English

quantity

noun
The amount or number of a material or abstract thing not usually estimated by spatial measurement.
Usage examples:
The quantity and quality of the fruit can be controlled

Quantity - all meanings in English

rate

noun
A measure, quantity, or frequency, typically one measured against another quantity or measure.
Usage examples:
The island has the lowest crime rate in the world

verb
Assign a standard or value to (something) according to a particular scale.
Usage examples:
They were asked to rate their ability at different driving manoeuvres

verb
Scold (someone) angrily.
Usage examples:
He rated the young man soundly for his want of respect

Rate - all meanings in English

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