epidemic threshold

noun

a predefined threshold for the number of cases of a contagious disease above which the disease is considered to be at epidemic levels.

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Meanings

nounepidemic threshold (countable and uncountable, plural epidemic thresholds)

plural epidemic thresholds

  1. countableuncountableepidemiologya predefined threshold for the number of cases of a contagious disease above which the disease is considered to be at epidemic levels.

Origin

From epidemic + threshold.

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