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Webster 1913 Edition
Prevalence
Prev′a-lence
,Noun.
The quality or condition of being prevalent; superior strength, force, or influence; general existence, reception, or practice; wide extension;
as, the
prevalence
of virtue, of a fashion, or of a disease; the prevalence
of a rumor.The duke better knew what kind of argument were of
prevalence
with him. Clarendon.
Webster 1828 Edition
Prevalence
PREV'ALENCE
Definition 2024
prevalence
prevalence
See also: prévalence
English
Noun
prevalence (countable and uncountable, plural prevalences)
- The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension.
- (epidemiology) 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.
Translations
wide extension
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number of cases compared to a total population
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External links
- prevalence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- prevalence in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911