- [countable, usually singular] incidence of something (formal) the extent to which something happens or has an effect
- an area with a high incidence of crime
Extra Examples- The country had the lowest incidence of Covid cases proportional to its population.
- The lack of vitamins may explain the higher incidence of heart disease.
- There is a greater incidence of cancer in the families of radiation workers.
- the highest recorded incidence of air pollution
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- great
- high
- peak
- …
- have
- show
- increase
- …
- increase
- decrease
- fall
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- rate
- incidence among
- incidence in
- a decrease in the incidence of something
- an increase in the incidence of something
- a variation in the incidence of something
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- [uncountable] (physics) the way in which light meets a surface
- the angle of incidence
Word Originlate Middle English (denoting a casual or subordinate event): from Old French, or from medieval Latin incidentia, from Latin incidere ‘fall upon, happen to’, from in- ‘upon’ + cadere ‘to fall’. Sense (1) dates from the early 19th cent.
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