Frequence vs Incidence - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between frequence and incidence

is that frequence is (obsolete) a crowd or throng; a concourse while incidence is the act of something happening; occurrence.

(en noun)

(obsolete) A crowd or throng; a concourse.

(Tennyson)

(obsolete) frequency; abundance

* Bishop Joseph Hall

There are many things, which have wonder in their worth, and lose it in their frequence .

(Webster 1913)

(wikipedia incidence) (en noun)

The act of something happening; occurrence

The extent, or the relative frequency of something happening

(physics) The striking of radiation or a projectile upon a surface

(epidemiology) A measure of the risk that a person develops a new condition within a specified period of time, usually a year.

* angle of incidence * incidence algebra * incidence axiom * incidence function * incidence geometry * incidence graph * nonincidence

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