Incidence is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INCIDENCE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the frequency of an event
• the occurrence, rate, or frequency of a disease, crime, or other undesirable thing
• the way in which the burden of a tax falls upon the population
• the intersection of a line, or something moving in a straight line, such as a beam of light, with a surface
• extent or frequency of occurrence
• A falling on or upon; an incident; an event.
• The direction in which a body, or a ray of light or heat, falls on any surface.
• the relative frequency of occurrence of something
• the striking of a light beam on a surface
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• angle of incidence; the arrival of something (as a projectile or a ray of light) at a surface

Words related to INCIDENCE

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Words that contain INCIDENCE

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How to use INCIDENCE in a sentence

• These are called angles of incidence and reflection, and are equal.
• The next law is that which determines that the angles of incidence and of reflection are equal.
• Power investigated the incidence of small-pox on the neighborhood, both before and after the establishment of the hospital.
• These first Eastern strikes in the garment trades, although local in their incidence, were national in their effects.
• During the war Sir Archdall Reid, employing very simple means, reduced the incidence of disease among the large body of troops in his charge almost to the vanishing point.
• The double incidence of the royal and papal demands was met by protests which showed some tendency towards the splitting up of the victorious side into parties.
• At each angle of incidence there would be a particular wave length for which the phases of the several reflections are in agreement.
• Observation and experiment have taught us that light is always reflected in such a way that the angle of reflection equals the angle of incidence.
• When light passes from air into water or glass, the refracted ray is bent toward the perpendicular, so that the angle of refraction is smaller than the angle of incidence.
• Owing to this bending of the rays of light the angles of refraction and incidence are never equal.
• If that be so, the incidence of events has given him something to ponder over during the last three years.
• The facility, accuracy and thoroughness afforded by skilled, direct, laryngeal operation offers a means of lessening the incidence of cancer.
• While there is most decidedly such a thing as the inheritance of a tendency to or lack of resistance to a disease, it is not the result of incidence of the disease on the parent.
• What happens is that the incidence of them is shifted.
• Its eternity, and the infinitude of propositions it contains, remain potential and unapproachable until their incidence is found in existence.
• The only infectious disease which shows no abatement in its incidence is pneumonia, and the mortality in this increases with age.
• The use of soap and water only would lessen the incidence of infection.
• It is clear from the evidence that this does not represent a difference in the incidence of these diseases in the sexes, but that women do not attend so freely when suffering.

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