incidence

English

Etymology

From Middle French incidence, from Medieval Latin incidentia (“a falling upon”), from Latin incidens, present participle of incidere (“to fall upon”), from in (“on”) + cadere (“to fall”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.sɪ.dəns/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Homophone: incidents (some accents)
• Hyphenation: in‧ci‧dence

Noun

incidence (countable and uncountable, plural incidences)

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. (physics) The striking of radiation or a projectile upon a surface.
5. (epidemiology) A measure of the rate of new occurrence of a given medical condition in a population within a specified period of time.
6. (geometry) The falling of a point on a line, or a line on a plane.

Derived terms

• angle of incidence
• incidence algebra
• incidence axiom
• incidence function
• incidence geometry
• incidence graph
• incidence matrix
• nonincidence

 

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱh₂d-‎ (0 c, 31 e)

Translations

act of something happening

• Bulgarian: случване n (slučvane)
• Finnish: tapahtuma (fi), tapaus (fi)
• German: Auftreten (de) n, Vorkommen (de) n
• Hebrew: מקרה (he) m (mikré)
• Hungarian: előfordulás (hu)

extent, or the relative frequency of something happening

• Finnish: esiintymistiheys
• German: Auftretenshäufigkeit f
• Hebrew: מידה (he) f (midá)
• Russian: инциде́нтность (ru) f (incidéntnostʹ)
• Swedish: incidens (sv) c

manner of falling; bearing or onus, as of a tax

• Finnish: kohdistuminen

striking of radiation or a projectile upon a surface

• Bulgarian: падане (bg) n (padane)
• Esperanto: alfalo
• Finnish: kohtaaminen (fi), kohdistuminen, osuminen (fi)
• Irish: ionsaitheacht f
• Russian: паде́ние (ru) n (padénije)

epidemiology: measure of the rate of new occurrence of a given medical condition

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發病率／发病率 (zh) (fābìnglǜ), 發生率／发生率 (zh) (fāshēnglǜ)

• Danish: incidens c
• Finnish: ilmaantuvuus (fi)
• German: Inzidenz (de) f
• Kazakh: аурушаңдық (auruşañdyq)

geometry: falling of a point on a line, or a line on a plane

• Finnish: kuuluminen (fi)

See also

• prevalence

Further reading

• “incidence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “incidence”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “incidence”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Czech

Noun

incidence f

1. (epidemiology) incidence

Declension

Declension of incidence (soft feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	incidence	incidence
genitive	incidence	incidencí
dative	incidenci	incidencím
accusative	incidenci	incidence
vocative	incidence	incidence
locative	incidenci	incidencích
instrumental	incidencí	incidencemi

French

Etymology

From Middle French incidence, from Latin incidentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.si.dɑ̃s/

• Audio

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Noun

incidence f (plural incidences)

1. impact, effect, consequence
2. incidence

Descendants

• → German: Inzidenz

Further reading

• “incidence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle French

Etymology

From Latin incidentia.

Noun

incidence f (plural incidences)

1. incident; event; occurrence

Descendants

• English: incidence
• French: incidence