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10 May 2016
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What is the difference between incident and incidence ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between incident and incidence ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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10 May 2016
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Incident refers to one specific event that has occurred. Incidence refers to the rate or frequency of something (usually negative things such as illnesses or crime).
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"The incident happened on Monday."
"There is an increased incidence of flu in the winter."
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Incident refers to one specific event that has occurred. Incidence refers to the rate or frequency of something (usually negative things such as illnesses or crime).
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Dear all,
Thank you so much for the clarifications! I am writing an email for a specific accident in the hospital. So I will use "incident" in that case.
Thank you so much for the clarifications! I am writing an email for a specific accident in the hospital. So I will use "incident" in that case.
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