prevalence, n.
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the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread
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"he was surprised by the prevalence of optimism about the future"
a superiority in numbers or amount
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preponderance prevalence
sample sentences
"a preponderance of evidence against the defendant"
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(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
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