"prevalence" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈpɹɛvələns/, /pɹɪˈveɪləns/ [variant] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-prevalence.wav [US] Forms: prevalences [plural]
Etymology: From Middle French prévalence. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|frm|prévalence}} Middle French prévalence Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} prevalence (countable and uncountable, plural prevalences)
  1. The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension or spread. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (wide extension): преобладаване (preobladavane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), 流行 (liúxíng) (Chinese Mandarin), 盛行 (shèngxíng) (Chinese Mandarin), 普遍 (pǔbiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 廣泛 (Chinese Mandarin), 广泛 (guǎngfàn) (Chinese Mandarin), het heersen (Dutch), het algemeen voorkomen (Dutch), verspreiding [feminine] (Dutch), hallitsevuus (Finnish), vallitsevuus (Finnish), prevalenssi (Finnish), prédominance [feminine] (French), weite Verbreitung [feminine] (German), Vorherrschen [neuter] (German), Verbreitetsein [neuter] (German), starkes Vorkommen [neuter] (German), prevalensi (Indonesian), leitheadúlacht [feminine] (Irish), prevalență [feminine] (Romanian), преобладание (preobladanije) [neuter] (Russian), надмоћност (nadmoćnost) [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), predominancia [feminine] (Spanish), predominio [masculine] (Spanish), preponderancia [feminine] (Spanish), prevalencia [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-prevalence-en-noun-lMbojU9K Disambiguation of 'wide extension': 100 0
  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. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Epidemiology Translations (number of cases compared to a total population): اِنْتِشَار (intišār) [masculine] (Arabic), инцидентност (incidentnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), overwicht [neuter] (Dutch), sairastavuus (Finnish), prévalence (French), Prävalenz [feminine] (German), Kennzahl für die Häufigkeit [feminine] (German), prevalensi (Indonesian), prevalenza (Italian), prevalência (Portuguese), распространённость (rasprostranjónnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), prevalencia (Spanish), поши́реність (pošýrenistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-prevalence-en-noun-qsz30BXJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 66 Topics: epidemiology, medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'number of cases compared to a total population': 10 90
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: prevail, prevalent, incidence

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      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "incidentnost",
      "sense": "number of cases compared to a total population",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "инцидентност"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "number of cases compared to a total population",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "overwicht"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "number of cases compared to a total population",
      "word": "sairastavuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "number of cases compared to a total population",
      "word": "prévalence"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "number of cases compared to a total population",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Prävalenz"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "number of cases compared to a total population",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Kennzahl für die Häufigkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "number of cases compared to a total population",
      "word": "prevalensi"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "number of cases compared to a total population",
      "word": "prevalenza"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "number of cases compared to a total population",
      "word": "prevalência"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rasprostranjónnostʹ",
      "sense": "number of cases compared to a total population",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "распространённость"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "number of cases compared to a total population",
      "word": "prevalencia"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "pošýrenistʹ",
      "sense": "number of cases compared to a total population",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "поши́реність"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "prevalence"
  ],
  "word": "prevalence"
}

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