Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

basic reproduction number

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English

Syllables: ba-sic re-pro-duc-tion num-ber
IPA

36

Scrabble Score

23

Letters

6

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The expected number of infection cases to be directly infected by an infected individual, given a population that is equally susceptible.

Inflected Forms

basic reproduction numbers (plural)

Synonyms

R-0 R0 R₀ basic reproduction rate basic reproduction ratio basic reproductive rate basic reproductive ratio basic reproductive number

Questions

What does basic reproduction number mean?: The expected number of infection cases to be directly infected by an infected individual, given a population that is equally susceptible.

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