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Definitions &Translations Wiktionary (3.00 / 1 vote) Rate this definition: severity (Noun). The state of being severe. severity (Noun). The degree of something undesirable; badness or seriousness. The severity of the offence merits a long prison sentence.
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acute 1. Referring to a disease of sudden onset and brief course, not chronic, sometimes loosely used to mean severe. 2. Referring to treatment or exposure: brief, intense, short-term; sometimes specifically referring to brief exposure of high intensity.
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- Full Definition of EXASPERATE. transitive verb. 1. a: to excite the anger of: enrage b: to cause irritation or annoyance to. 2. obsolete: to make more grievous: aggravate. — ex·as·per·at·ed·ly adverb. — ex·as·per·at·ing·ly \-ˌrā-tiŋ-lē\ adverb.xasperate suggests galling annoyance and the arousing of extreme impatience. nettle suggests a sharp but passing annoyance or stinging. provoke implies an arousing of strong annoyance that may excite to action.
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- What is the definition of 'intensity'?   In physics, intensity is a measure of the time-averaged energy flux.   The word intensity here is not synonymous with strength, amplitude, or level, as it som…etimes is in colloquial speech.
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intensity Noun. 1. intensity-the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation); he adjusted the intensity of the sound; they measured the station's signal strength. intensity level, strength. radio brightness-the strength of a radio wave picked up by a radio telescope.
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suffer verb (used without object) 1. to undergo or feel pain or distress: The patient is still suffering. 2. to sustain injury, disadvantage, or loss: One's health suffers from overwork. The business suffers from lack of capital.
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- Injury severity is an integral component in injury research and injury control. This. lecture introduces the concept of injury severity and its use and importance in injury. epidemiology. Upon completing the lecture, the reader should be able to: 1. Describe the importance of measuring injury severity for injury control.
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ilustreous-gre-barrons-essential-plus : extreme in a way that is not normal or that shows an illness or mental problem. medical: relating to or caused by disease.: of or relating to the study of diseases: relating to pathology. extreme in a way that is not normal or that shows an illness or mental problem. medical: relating to or caused by disease.
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prevalence Prevalence is expressed as a ratio in which the number of events is the numerator and the population at risk is the denominator. See also rate. prevalent, adj. Epidemiology. (1) The number of people with a specific condition or attribute at a specified time divided by the total number of people in the population.
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Polytrauma/TBI System of Care Severity of TBI is a continuum and the particular classification used to designate a person as having mild, moderate or severe injury can be somewhat arbitrary. The severity level has prognostic value, in the sense that persons with more severe TBI tend to have more difficulty making complete recovery.
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- adjective. 1  Unsparing, harsh, or strict, as in treatment of others: a severe critic. 2  Marked by or requiring strict adherence to rigorous standards or high principles: a severe code of behavior. 3  Stern or forbidding, as in manner or appearance: spoke in a severe voice.
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probation pro·ba·tion. n. 1. A process or period in which a person's fitness, as for work or membership in a social group, is tested. 2. Law. a. A criminal sentence consisting of a term of imprisonment that is suspended provided certain terms and conditions are met. b. The status of serving such a criminal sentence.
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- verb (used with object), mitigated, mitigating. 1. to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate. 2. to make less severe: to mitigate a punishment. 3. to make (a person, one's state of mind, disposition, etc.) milder or more gentle; mollify; appease. verb (used without object), mitigated, mitigating.
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fever Noun. 1. fever-a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection. febricity, febrility, feverishness, pyrexia. symptom - (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease.
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- 1 Incident Severity. 2  The severity of incident is a subjective measure of its impact on or threat to the operation or integrity of the institution and its information. 3  It determines the priority for handling the incident, who manages the incident, and the timing and extent of the response.
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prevalence prevalence - (epidemiology) the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population. Translations.
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syndrome Definition of syndrome. 1 : a group of signs and symptoms that occur together and characterize a particular abnormality or condition. 2 : a set of concurrent things (as emotions or actions) that usually form an identifiable pattern.
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- Definition of mild. 1  1 : gentle in nature or behavior has a mild disposition. 2  2a (1) : moderate in action or effect a mild sedative (2) : not sharp, spicy, or bitter mild cheese mild aleb : not being or involving what is extreme an analysis under mild conditions. 3  3 : not severe : temperate a mild climate mild symptoms of disease.
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- KnowledgeBase Severity Levels. Qualys assigns a vulnerability category and a severity level for each vulnerability detected. Vulnerability categories are Vulnerability, Potential Vulnerability and Information Gathered. A severity level indicates the security risk posed by exploitation of the vulnerability and its degree of difficulty. The results of successful exploitation of a vulnerability can vary from disclosure of information about the host to a complete compromise of the host.
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prevalence The number of cases of a disease existing in a given population at a specific period of time (period prevalence) or at a particular moment in time (point prevalence).
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Defect Severity 1 severity: The degree of impact that a defect has on the development or operation of a component or system.  The actual terminologies, and their meaning, can vary depending on people, projects, organizations, or defect tracking tools, but the following is a normally accepted classification.
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- Mitigate definition, to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate. See more.
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aggravated The definition of aggravated is something that intensifies or worsens something like a condition or circumstance. Carrying a gun while committing a burglary is an example of aggravated burglary and carries with it a more severe penalty. Aggravated is defined as something was made more intense or acute.
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intensity intensity-the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation); he adjusted the intensity of the sound; they measured the station's signal strength. intensity level, strength. radio brightness-the strength of a radio wave picked up by a radio telescope.
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severity se·ver·i·ty. n. pl. se·ver·i·ties. 1. The state or quality of being severe. 2. The act or an instance of severe behavior, especially punishment. (səˈvɛr ɪ ti). n., pl.
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- Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Mitigation(noun) the act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity, punishment, or penalty.