Incidence vs. Incidents — What's the Difference?

The occurrence, rate, or frequency of a disease, crime, or other undesirable thing

Incidents is a 1987 collection of four essays by Roland Barthes. It was published posthumously by François Wahl, Barthes' literary executor.

The intersection of a line, or something moving in a straight line, such as a beam of light, with a surface

A particular occurrence, especially one of minor importance.

The rate or extent of occurrence or effect

An event in a narrative or drama.

Usage Problem A specific event; instance or incident

A usually violent or disruptive occurrence, especially one that precipitates a larger crisis

The action, fact, or instance of occurring

An occurrence that interrupts normal procedure or functioning; a mishap

The arrival of radiation, a wave, or an object at a surface.

(Law) Something contingent on or related to something else.

Angle of incidence.

Tending to arise or occur as a result or accompaniment

The act of something happening; occurrence.

(Law) Related to or dependent on another thing.

The extent or the relative frequency of something happening.

(Physics) Falling upon or striking a surface

The manner of falling; bearing or onus, as of a tax that falls unequally.

Plural of incident

(physics) The striking of radiation or a projectile upon a surface.

(epidemiology) A measure of the rate of new occurrence of a given medical condition in a population within a specified period of time.

(geometry) The falling of a point on a line, or a line on a plane.

A falling on or upon; an incident; an event; an occurrence.

The direction in which a body, or a ray of light or heat, falls on any surface.

The rate or ratio at which something occurs; as, the incidence of murder in Los Angeles; the incidence of cancer in men over 50.

The relative frequency of occurrence of something

The striking of a light beam on a surface;