About The Word Incidence
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Incidence
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What's The Definition Of Incidence?
[n] the striking of a light beam on a surface; "he measured the angle of incidence of the reflected light"
[n] the relative frequency of occurrence of something Synonyms | Synonyms for Incidence: relative incidence Related Terms | Find terms related to Incidence: accident | amount | coming to be | common occurrence | commonness | contingency | contingent | degree | event | eventuality | eventuation | extent | frequence | frequency | habitualness | materialization | number | occurrence | oftenness | prevalence | quantity | rate | realization | relative incidence | routineness | usualness See Also | frequency | morbidity | optical phenomenon | relative frequency Incidence In Webster's Dictionary \In"ci*dence\, n. [Cf. F. incidence.]
1. A falling on or upon; an incident; an event. [Obs.] --Bp.
Hall.
2. (Physics) The direction in which a body, or a ray of light
or heat, falls on any surface.
In equal incidences there is a considerable
inequality of refractions. --Sir I.
Newton.
{Angle of incidence}, the angle which a ray of light, or the
line of incidence of a body, falling on any surface, makes
with a perpendicular to that surface; also formerly, the
complement of this angle.
{Line of incidence}, the line in the direction of which a
surface is struck by a body, ray of light, and the like.
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