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In graph theory , an incidence is a pair ( u , e ) where u is a vertex and e is an edge incident to u . Two distinct incidences ( u , e ) and ( v , f ) are adjacent if and only if u = v , e = f or u v = e or f . An incidence coloring of a graph G is an ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Angle \An"gle\ ([a^ ng]"g'l), n. [F. angle, L. angulus angle, corner; akin to uncus hook, Gr. 'agky`los bent, crooked, angular, 'a`gkos a bend or hollow, AS. angel hook, fish-hook, G. angel, and F. anchor.] The inclosed space near the point ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE annual ▪ An annual incidence rate of 2.4/100 000 at risk population was reported for presenile probable Alzheimer's disease in another national study. ▪ The annual incidence of infection in New York peaked from ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "incidental matter," from Middle French incidence (15c.), from Late Latin incidentia (see incident (n.)). Meaning "act of coming into contact with" is from 1650s; sense in physics is from 1620s.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the relative frequency of occurrence of something [syn: relative incidence ] the striking of a light beam on a surface; "he measured the angle of incidence of the reflected light"
Usage examples of incidence.
Most antiabortion activists, for example, have openly discouraged legislative allies from even pursuing those compromise measures that would have significantly reduced the incidence of the procedure popularly known as partial-birth abortion, because the image the procedure evokes in the mind of the public has helped them win converts to their position.
The increased incidence of bee deaths is the result of the mass exodus to the suburbs, where people have more contact with bees, running on lawns with bare feet, etc.
It was by now taken as read that collecting figures on morbidity, say, or the incidence of crime or insanity, or the facts of nutrition, would comprise the empirical basis both for social policy on the part of government, and for social science in the universities.
The most effective approach was a bold presentation of explicit sex education and the use of condoms to prevent the infection, combined with inexpensive retroviral treatment of pregnant women to reduce the incidence of HIV infection among their newborn babies.
Must also persuade Fawcett to get me data on the incidence of goitre in imbeciles, schizophrenics especially.
Rudolf, meet Saint Montague Hayward, chairman of the Royal Commission for Investigating the Incidence of Psittacosis among Dromedaries, and managing editor of The Blunt Instrument, canonized this very day for assassinating a reader who thought a blackleg was something to do with varicose veins.
You don't know what concordance of factors and variables yields that calibrated can't-miss feeling, and you don't want to soil the magic by trying to figure it out, but you don't want to change your grip, your stick, your side of the court, your angle of incidence to the sun.
Most of the mistakes died young, but you've noticed the high incidence of albinos among the younger people here?
It's possible to complicate Pemulis's Mean-Value equation for distribution by factoring in stuff like historical incidences of bellicosity and appeasement, unique characteristics of perceived national interests, etc.
No lesson seems ever to be drawn from history of the fluctuating incidence of the civilising process first upon this race and then upon that.
He was of course transfixed by any incidence of the word alcohol, and all its cognates and synonyms and homonyms.
Part of the fun—as it turned out, most of the fun—of this last one had been knowing that the cops would go crazy, with two incidences so similar, so close together, and absolutely no clues with which they could work.
The normal yearly incidence of deafblind children in the United States is one hundred and forty.
Beldin, Idaho State University, "A Bioanthropological Approach to the Effects of Air Quality on Human Health, with Emphasis on the Incidence of Stillbirths in Two Southeast Idaho Cities," 1978.
The murder and suicide rates shot up a thousand-fold, as did the incidence of accidental death.