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prevailance

prevailance is the obsolete form of prevalence.

Meaning of prevalence

Noun

prevalence (countable and uncountable, plural prevalences)

  1. The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension or spread.
    • On Starting Point this morning, Southern Poverty Law Center senior fellow Mark Potok discusses the prevalence of white supremacist groups and explains how this type of music is used as a recruitment tool.2012 August 7, “SPLC fellow: ‘I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that [Page] essentially expected to die’”, in CNN
  2. The total number of cases of a disease in a given statistical population at a given time, divided by the number of individuals in that population.

Questions about prevailance

What is prevailance the obsolete form of?
Prevailance is the obsolete form of prevalence.

Words near prevailance in the dictionary

  1. prevacuoles
  2. prevaginal
  3. prevail
  4. prevail upon
  5. prevail'd
  6. prevailance
  7. prevailancy
  8. prevaile
  9. prevailed
  10. prevailed upon
  11. prevailency

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