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prevalence

Kelime Anlamı :

1. yaygınlık.
2. egemen olma.
3. Toplumda aynı süre içinde belli bir hastalığa tutulanların sayısı.
4. Belli bir yer ve zamanda meydana gelen aynı türden belli vaka sayısı.
5. prevalans.
6. yayginlik.
7. içicilik.
8. hakim olma.
9. hüküm sürme, hâkim olma.

Eş Anlamlı Kelimeler :

currency, predominance, reign

Tanımlar :

1. the condition of being prevalent.
2. medicine the total number of cases of a disease in a given population at a specific time.

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

1. 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.
2. the total number of cases of a disease in the given statistical population at a given time.
3. the total number of cases of a disease in the given statistical population at a given time, divided by the number of individuals in the population.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

1. the quality or condition of being prevalent; superior strength, force, or influence; general existence, reception, or practice; wide extension

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

1. the state or quality of being prevalent.
2. superior strength, influence, or efficacy; predominance.
3. general occurrence, practice, or reception; extensive existence or use: as, the prevalence of a custom or of a disease.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. a superiority in numbers or amount
2. (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
3. the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread