Prevalence

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The condition of being prevalent.
  • n. Medicine The total number of cases of a disease in a given population at a specific time.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The quality or condition of being prevalent; superior strength, force, or influence; general existence, reception, or practice; wide extension; as the prevalence of virtue, of a fashion, or of a disease; the prevalence of a rumor.
  • n. The total number of cases of a disease in the given statistical population at a given time.
  • n. The total number of cases of a disease in the given statistical population at a given time, divided by the number of individuals in the population.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The quality or condition of being prevalent; superior strength, force, or influence; general existence, reception, or practice; wide extension
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The state or quality of being prevalent.
  • n. Superior strength, influence, or efficacy; predominance.
  • n. General occurrence, practice, or reception; extensive existence or use: as, the prevalence of a custom or of a disease.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a superiority in numbers or amount
  • n. (epidemiology) the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population
  • n. the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    figure    number    ratio   
    Cross Reference
    incidence   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    predominance    currency    reign   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    benevolence   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    incidence    ravage    spread    outbreak    manifestation   
     
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