Incident vs. Incidence
Incidentnoun
An event or occurrence.
Incidentnoun
A (relatively minor) event that is incidental to, or related to others.
Incidentnoun
An event that causes or may cause an interruption or a crisis, such as a workplace illness or a software error.
Incidentadjective
Arising as the result of an event, inherent.
Incidentadjective
Falling on or striking a surface.
Incidentadjective
Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.
Incidentadjective
Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.
Incidentadjective
(legal) Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.
Incidentadjective
Falling or striking upon, as a ray of light upon a reflecting surface.
Incidentadjective
Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.
Incidentadjective
Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.
Incidentadjective
Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.
Incidentnoun
That which falls out or takes place; an event; casualty; occurrence.
Incidentnoun
That which happens aside from the main design; an accidental or subordinate action or event.
Incidentnoun
Something appertaining to, passing with, or depending on, another, called the principal.
Incidentnoun
a single distinct event
Incidentnoun
a public disturbance;
Incidentadjective
falling or striking on something
Incidentadjective
(sometimes followed by `to') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence;
Incidencenoun
The act of something happening; occurrence.
Incidencenoun
The extent or the relative frequency of something happening.
Incidencenoun
The manner of falling; bearing or onus, as of a tax that falls unequally.
Incidencenoun
(physics) The striking of radiation or a projectile upon a surface.
Incidencenoun
(epidemiology) A measure of the risk of a person developing a new condition within a specified period of time, usually a year.
Incidencenoun
(geometry) The falling of a point on a line, or a line on a plane.
Incidencenoun
A falling on or upon; an incident; an event; an occurrence.
Incidencenoun
The direction in which a body, or a ray of light or heat, falls on any surface.
Incidencenoun
The rate or ratio at which something occurs; as, the incidence of murder in Los Angeles; the incidence of cancer in men over 50.
Incidencenoun
the relative frequency of occurrence of something
Incidencenoun
the striking of a light beam on a surface;
Incidencenoun
the occurrence, rate, or frequency of a disease, crime, or other undesirable thing
Incidencenoun
the way in which the burden of a tax falls upon the population
Incidencenoun
the intersection of a line, or something moving in a straight line, such as a beam of light, with a surface
