incidence

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Synonyms: incidency, incident, indigence, incipience, coincidence, accidence, incidents, incidences, decidence, quincidence, inscience

Antonyms: incidency, incident, indigence, incipience, coincidence, accidence, incidents, incidences, decidence, quincidence, inscience

Related words from Datamuse; suggestions, not definitions.

Noun

1. The act of something happening; [[occurrence]].
2. The [[extent]] or the relative [[frequency]] of something happening.
3. The manner of falling; bearing or onus, as of a tax that falls unequally.
4. {{lb|en|physics}} The [[striking]] of [[radiation]] or a [[projectile]] upon a [[surface]].
5. {{senseid|en|epidemiology}} {{lb|en|epidemiology}} A measure of the [[rate]] of new occurrence of a given medical [[condition]] in a population within a specified period of time.
6. {{lb|en|geometry}} The falling of a [[point]] on a [[line]], or a line on a [[plane]].
7. {{lb|en|graph theory}} The relation between an [[edge]] of a [[graph]] and one of the [[vertex|vertices]] it connects.

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