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CASE-TO-INFECTION RATIO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does case-to-infection ratio mean? 

CASE-TO-INFECTION RATIO (noun)
  The noun CASE-TO-INFECTION RATIO has 1 sense:

1. the number of cases of a disease divided by the number of infections with the agent that causes the diseaseplay

  Familiarity information: CASE-TO-INFECTION RATIO used as a noun is very rare.


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CASE-TO-INFECTION RATIO (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The number of cases of a disease divided by the number of infections with the agent that causes the disease

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

case-to-infection proportion; case-to-infection ratio

Hypernyms ("case-to-infection ratio" is a kind of...):

proportion (the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole)


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