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preponderancia — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • preponderance noun Superiority in amount or number; the bulk or majority; also, a large amount or number; an abundance, a profusion.
  • prevalence noun How common or widespread something is in a particular place or group.
  • sway verb To move slowly and rhythmically from side to side.

Senses

preponderancia is used for these senses in English:

  • preponderance Superiority of influence, power, a quality, etc.; an outweighing, predominance, pre-eminence.
  • prevalence The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension or spread.
  • sway Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side

preponderance — full definition

  1. noun Superiority in amount or number; the bulk or majority; also, a large amount or number; an abundance, a profusion.
  2. noun Superiority of influence, power, a quality, etc.; an outweighing, predominance, pre-eminence.
  3. noun Greater physical weight.
  4. noun The excess of weight of that part of a cannon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.

prevalence — full definition

  1. noun How common or widespread something is in a particular place or group.
  2. noun In epidemiology, the proportion of a population that has a given condition at a particular point or over a stated period, counting existing cases as well as new ones.

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