Incidence vs Accidence - What's the difference?
incidence | accidence |
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.
(grammar) The accidents , of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar.
:(John Milton)
A book containing the first principles of grammar, and so of the rudiments of any subject or art.
The rudiments of any subject.
* James Russell Lowell
As nouns the difference between incidence and accidence
is that incidence is the act of something happening; occurrence while accidence is (grammar) the accidents , of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar.incidence
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Noun
(wikipedia incidence) (en noun)Derived terms
* angle of incidence * incidence algebra * incidence axiom * incidence function * incidence geometry * incidence graph * nonincidenceSee also
* prevalenceExternal links
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(en noun)- Our best schools send every year to college boys who know their accidence reasonably, and in some cases admirably well