incidence
Meaning of incidence
noun
- The act of something happening; occurrence.
- The extent or the relative frequency of something happening.
- The manner of falling; bearing or onus, as of a tax that falls unequally.
- The striking of radiation or a projectile upon a surface.
- A measure of the rate of new occurrence of a given medical condition in a population within a specified period of time.
- The falling of a point on a line, or a line on a plane.
Information about incidence
- It is a name.
- The plural form of incidence is: incidences.
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Hyphenation of incidence
in-ci-dence
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- incidence is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Translation of incidence
- Spanish: incidencia, índice
- Portuguese: incidência, índice
- French: incidence, survenance
- Italian: incidenza
Words that rhyme with incidence
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