incidence

== English == === Etymology === 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”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɪn.sɪ.dəns/ Homophone: incidents (some accents) Hyphenation: in‧ci‧dence === 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. (physics) The striking of radiation or a projectile upon a surface. (epidemiology) A measure of the rate of new occurrence of a given medical condition in a population within a specified period of time. Coordinate term: prevalence (geometry) The falling of a point on a line, or a line on a plane. (graph theory) The relation between an edge of a graph and one of the vertices it connects. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === “incidence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “incidence”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “incidence”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. == Czech == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈɪnt͡sɪdɛnt͡sɛ] === Noun === incidence f (epidemiology) incidence ==== Declension ==== == French == === Etymology === From Middle French incidence, from Latin incidentia. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɛ̃.si.dɑ̃s/ === Noun === incidence f (plural incidences) impact, effect, consequence incidence ==== Descendants ==== → German: Inzidenz === Further reading === “incidence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Middle French == === Etymology === From Latin incidentia. === Noun === incidence f (plural incidences) incident; event; occurrence ==== Descendants ==== English: incidence French: incidence