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epicurve

noun

Etymology

Blend of epidemic + curve.

  1. derived from *(s)ker-✻
  2. derived from curvus — “bent, curved”
  3. compounded as epicurve — “epidemic + curve”

Definitions

  1. A graphical representation of the number of cases at the start of an epidemic

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for epicurve. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA