RELATIVE INCIDENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does relative incidence mean? 

• RELATIVE INCIDENCE (noun)
  The noun RELATIVE INCIDENCE has 1 sense:

1. the relative frequency of occurrence of something

  Familiarity information: RELATIVE INCIDENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELATIVE INCIDENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The relative frequency of occurrence of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

incidence; relative incidence

Hypernyms ("relative incidence" is a kind of...):

frequency; relative frequency (the ratio of the number of observations in a statistical category to the total number of observations)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "relative incidence"):

morbidity (the relative incidence of a particular disease)

 Context examples 

Morbidity; the relative incidence of a particular disease in a population.

(Morbidity, NCI Thesaurus)