Spreading vs Prevalence - What's the difference?
spreading | prevalence |
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-10, author=Audrey Garric
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The act by which something is spread.
* 1991 , Samuel D. Robbins, Wisconsin Birdlife: Population & Distribution Past & Present (page 579)
The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension.
(epidemiology) 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.
As nouns the difference between spreading and prevalence
is that spreading is the act by which something is spread while prevalence is prevalence.As a verb spreading
is .spreading
English
Verb
(head)citation, passage=As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.}}
Noun
(en noun)- Small numbers [of meadowlarks] remain on farms in the southern counties throughout the winter, usually relying on fresh manure spreadings for food when snow covers the fields.