prevalence
noun/ˈpɹɛvələns/ · variant /pɹɪˈveɪləns/
Etymology Borrowed from Middle French prévalence.
1
The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension or spread.
- On Starting Point this morning, Southern Poverty Law Center senior fellow Mark Potok discusses the prevalence of white supremacist groups and explains how this type of music is used as a recruitment tool.2012 August 7, “SPLC fellow: ‘I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that [Page] essentially expected to die’”, in CNN:
2
Epidemiology, Medicine, Sciences 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.
- Derived terms
- coprevalence, coproprevalence, genoprevalence, immunoprevalence, nonprevalence, seroprevalence