Dictionary Definition
incidence
Noun
1 the relative frequency of occurrence of
something [syn: relative
incidence]
2 the striking of a light beam on a surface; "he
measured the angle of incidence of the reflected light"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- The act of something happening; occurrence
- The extent, or the relative frequency of something happening
- The striking of radiation or a projectile upon a surface
Translations
The act of something happening; occurrence
- Finnish: tapahtuma
The extent, or the relative frequency of
something happening
- Finnish: esiintymistiheys
The striking of radiation or a projectile upon a
surface
Derived terms
Related terms
Extensive Definition
Incidence may refer to:
- Incidence (epidemiology), a measure of the risk of developing some new condition within a specified period of time
- Incidence (geometry), the binary relations describing how subsets meet
- Angle of incidence, a measure of deviation of something from "straight on"
- Incidence algebra, associative algebra used in combinatorics, a branch of mathematics
- Incidence structure, a feature of combinatorial mathematics
See also
incidence in German: Inzidenz
incidence in French: Incidence
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accident, amount, coming to be, common
occurrence, commonness, contingency, contingent, degree, event, eventuality, eventuation, extent, frequence, frequency, habitualness, materialization,
number, occurrence, oftenness, prevalence, quantity, rate, realization, relative
incidence, routineness, usualness