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| Main Entry: |
incidence
 [in-si-duhns] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | occurrence |
| Synonyms: | commonness, degree, drift, extent, frequency, measure, number, percentage, prevalence, proportion, rate, scope, tendency, trend |
| Notes: | the primary meaning of incident is that of occurrence or event; the primary meaning of incidence is that of the rate or number of times at which something occurs |
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| Main Entry: | occurrence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
at issue, bustling, current, doing, eventful, full of incident, going on, happening, in question, in the wind, incidental, on foot, on the tapis
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Example Sentences
- More bobbies on the beat may not have much to do with the incidence of crime.
- The incidence of persons attracted to persons of the same gender has not changed.
- The incidence of the poor-metabolizer genotype varies among different ethnic groups.
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