Incidence

Quick meaning: Incidence is a noun meaning The act of something happening; occurrence.

Meaning

The act of something happening; occurrence.

More Meanings

1. The extent or the relative frequency of something happening.
2. The manner of falling; bearing or onus, as of a tax that falls unequally.
3. (physics) The striking of radiation or a projectile upon a surface.
4. (epidemiology) A measure of the rate of new occurrence of a given medical condition in a population within a specified period of time.
5. (geometry) The falling of a point on a line, or a line on a plane.
6. (graph theory) The relation between an edge of a graph and one of the vertices it connects.

Word Forms

• incidences

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Related dictionary entries include incident, occurrence, event, case, effect, consequence.

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