incidence
Syllables: in·ci·dence/ˈɪn.sɪ.dəns/
incidence noun: the act of something happening; occurrence.
Noun
incidence (countable and uncountable, plural incidences)
- 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.
- 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 Urdu
- وقوع
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.
Forms of incidence
| plural | incidences |
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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
- angle of incidence
- incidence algebra
- incidence axiom
- incidence function
- incidence geometry
- incidence graph
- incidence matrix
- nonincidence
- seroincidence
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
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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