{
    "term": "incidence",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the extent to which something happens or has an effect",
            "sensetop": "incidence of something",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an area with a **high incidence** of crime"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The country had the lowest incidence of Covid cases proportional to its population."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The lack of vitamins may explain the higher incidence of heart disease."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is a greater incidence of cancer in the families of radiation workers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the highest recorded incidence of air pollution"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["great", "high", "peak"],
                "verb + incidence": ["have", "show", "increase"],
                "incidence + verb": ["increase", "decrease", "fall"],
                "incidence + noun": ["rate"],
                "preposition": ["incidence among", "incidence in"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a decrease in the incidence of something",
                    "an increase in the incidence of something",
                    "a variation in the incidence of something"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the way in which light meets a surface",
            "labels": "(physics)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the angle of incidence"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɪnsɪdəns/",
                "audio": "in/incidence/incidence__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɪnsɪdəns/",
                "audio": "in/incidence/incidence__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (denoting a casual or subordinate event): from Old French, or from medieval Latin incidentia, from Latin incidere ‘fall upon, happen to’, from in- ‘upon’ + cadere ‘to fall’. Sense (1) dates from the early 19th cent."
}