PREVALENCE

• (noun) the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread

  "he was surprised by the prevalence of optimism about the future"

• (noun) a superiority in numbers or amount

  "a preponderance of evidence against the defendant"

  synonyms : preponderance

  A preponderance of evidence against the defendant led to his ruin. -added by naila_inlas

• (noun) (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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