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Incidence

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The act or an instance of happening; occurrence: did not expect criticism and was surprised by its incidence.

n. Extent or frequency of occurrence: a high incidence of malaria in the tropics.

n. Physics The arrival of radiation or a projectile at a surface.

n. Physics Angle of incidence.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The act of something happening; occurrence

n. The extent, or the relative frequency of something happening

n. The striking of radiation or a projectile upon a surface

n. A measure of the risk that a person develops a new condition within a specified period of time, usually a year.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A falling on or upon; an incident; an event; an occurrence.

n. The direction in which a body, or a ray of light or heat, falls on any surface.

n. The rate or ratio at which something occurs.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A subordinate occurrence or thing; an incident; something incidental or casual.

n. The manner of falling; direction of the line of fall; course.

n. In physics, the falling or impinging of a ray of light or heat, etc., upon a surface: used especially with reference to the direction of the ray.

n. In astronomy, same as immersion, 4.

n. In geometry, the situation of two figures in which they have something more in common than they would have in some other situation, but do not completely coincide.

n. In gunnery, the angle which the longer axis of a projectile makes with the surface struck.

n. The actual fall of taxation upon a particular individual or piece of property, in distinction from its nominal or supposed distribution.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the striking of a light beam on a surface

n. the relative frequency of occurrence of something

Word Usage

"As any tax economist will tell you, who ultimately pays a tax (what they call the incidence of a tax) depends on the nature and circumstances of the tax."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

optical phenomenon

Cross Reference

axis of incidence principal incidence angle of incidence incidence formula grazing incidence

Form

incidence algebra incidence axiom incidence geometry angle of incidence incidence graph

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

incident event occurrence falling

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

coincidence

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

prevalence diagnosis prevention recurrence pathogenesis