Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension or spread.

    weite Verbreitung, Vorherrschen, Verbreitetsein

    преобладаниеpreobladanije

  2. (countable, uncountable)The total number of cases of a disease in a given statistical population at a given time, divided by the number of individuals in that population.

    Prävalenz, Kennzahl für die Häufigkeit

    распространённостьrasprostranjónnostʹ

    поши́реністьpošýrenistʹ

    (epidemiology) the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population

Examples

6 sentences
  1. In Brazil the prevalence of Asperger's Syndrome may reach 0.5%.

    У Бразилії поширеність синдрому Аспергера може досягати 0,5%.

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  2. The prevalence of anger and resentment is hard to ignore.

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  3. The prevalence of sentences with the names "Tom" and "Mary" makes both a political statement and a religious one.

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  4. When the binary stars were discovered, the discovery was hailed as a proof of the universal prevalence of the law of gravitation.

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  5. It's very hard to understand concepts like prevalence, incidence, and case fatality ratio, but some articles explain these very well.

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
number of cases compared to a total population:
Русский
By meaning 2
wide extension:
number of cases compared to a total population:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
wide extension:
number of cases compared to a total population:

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French prévalence.

Borrowed from Middle French prévalence.

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Forms

plural: prevalences
Singularprevalence
Pluralprevalences

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

9 related words

See also

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