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Webster 1913 Edition


Prevalence

Prev′a-lence

,
Noun.
[L.
praevalentia
: cf. F.
prévalence
. See
Prevail
.]
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)

  1. The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension.
  2. (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.

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  • prevalence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • prevalence in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Czech

Noun

prevalence f

  1. prevalence (epidemiology)

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