Prevalence - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈprevələns|
Brit.
|ˈprev(ə)l(ə)ns|
noun
- the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread
- a superiority in numbers or amount (syn: preponderance)
he was surprised by the prevalence of optimism about the future
- (epidemiology) the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population- a superiority in numbers or amount (syn: preponderance)
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...the prevalence of rumors when hard information is withheld from the public...
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