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R number

R number is the abbreviation of basic reproduction number.

Meaning of basic reproduction number

Noun

basic reproduction number (plural basic reproduction numbers)

  1. The expected number of infection cases to be directly infected by an infected individual, given a population that is equally susceptible.

Forms of R number

pluralR numbers

Questions about R number

What is R number the abbreviation of?
R number is the abbreviation of basic reproduction number.

Words near R number in the dictionary

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Adapted from Wiktionary: R number (page history and authors); basic reproduction number (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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