What is the meaning of epidemic?

noun

  • A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time.

adjective

  • Especially of medicine. ( of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously)
    • usage: "an epidemic outbreak of influenza"
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