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incidence

Syllables: in·ci·dence/ˈɪn.sɪ.dəns/

incidence noun: the act of something happening; occurrence.

Noun

incidence (countable and uncountable, plural incidences)

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

incidence meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

incidence in Tamil

நிகழ்ச்சி, நிகழ்வு, நிகழ்வு நிலை, நிகழ்வளவு, விழுப்பாடு, வரி விதிநிலை

incidence in Bengali

আপতন, আপাত, পাত, পশ্চাদ্ভাব

incidence in Malayalam

occurrence, prevalence, rate
ആകസ്മികത, സംഭവിക്കുന്നരീതി, സംഭവിക്കൽ, സംഭവം, സംഭവിക്കുന്ന പ്രകാരം, സംഭവിക്കലിന്റെ തോത്
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incidence in Kannada
ಒಂದು ಘಟನೆಯ ಪುನಃಪ್ರಾಪ್ತಿ, ಒಂದು ಕಾರ್ಯದ ಪುನರಾವರ್ತನೆ, ಕಯ್ಗಯ್ಕೆ, ಆಗುಹ

Examples of incidence in a sentence

  • A directed graph (A, R) is a set of vertices A together with an incidence relation R: if aRb then there is an edge going from A to B.
  • It has been shown that including more disease-causing serotypes decreases the incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease.
  • We compared the incidence of PAD between schizophrenia and nonschizophrenia cohorts.

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Forms of incidence

pluralincidences

Plural of incidence: incidences

Origin of incidence

From Middle French incidence, from Medieval Latin incidentia (“a falling upon”), from Latin incidens, present participle of incidere (“to fall upon”), from in (“on”) + cadere (“to fall”).

Words formed from incidence

Phrases with incidence

Questions about incidence

What does incidence mean?
Incidence means the act of something happening; occurrence.
What is incidence in Tamil?
Incidence in Tamil is நிகழ்ச்சி, நிகழ்வு, நிகழ்வு நிலை. See Incidence meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is incidence?
Incidence is a noun.
How do you pronounce incidence?
Incidence is pronounced /ˈɪn.sɪ.dəns/.
What is the plural of incidence?
The plural of incidence is incidences.

Words near incidence in the dictionary

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  2. INCI
  3. incicurable
  4. incide
  5. incided
  6. incidence
  7. incidence function
  8. incidence functions
  9. incidence matrices
  10. incidence matrix
  11. incidence matrixes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: incidence (page history and authors); incidence (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); incidence (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); incidence (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); incidence (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); incidence (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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