Incidence (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. the rate or range of occurrence or influence of something, especially of something unwanted: the high incidence of heart disease in men over 40.
  2. a falling upon, affecting, or befalling; occurrence: The incidence of murder that Sunday afternoon shocked the sleepy village.
  3. Optics, Physics.
  4. the fact or the manner of being incident.
  5. partial coincidence of two figures, as of a line and a plane containing it.
noun
  1. degree, extent, or frequency of occurrence; amount
  2. the act or manner of impinging on or affecting by proximity or influence
  3. the arrival of a beam of light or particles at a surface
  4. the partial coincidence of two configurations, such as a point that lies on a circle
Incidence (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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