kekebalan kelompok

Indonesian

Etymology

Compound of kekebalan (“immunity”) +‎ kelompok (“group”), calque of Dutch groepsimmuniteit (“herd immunity”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəkəˈbalan kəˈlɔmpɔk̚/

Noun

kekebalan kelompok (first-person possessive kekebalan kelompokku, second-person possessive kekebalan kelompokmu, third-person possessive kekebalan kelompoknya)

1. (epidemiology) herd immunity: the indirect protection against the spread of a contagious disease in a given population caused by the immunity of a significant proportion of the population to that particular disease; the immunity may have been obtained through having survived the infection or through vaccination.

Further reading

• “kekebalan kelompok” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.