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%. — deniko

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

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

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

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

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

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Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

9 related words

See also

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