prevalence

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   the quality of prevailing generally

3. 3
   noun

   a superiority in numbers or amount

4. 4
   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

5. 5
   noun

   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.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French prévalence.