音标:[,epi'demikәl] ;
a. 流行性的, 传染的
a. Common to, or affecting at the same time, a large
number in a community; -- applied to a disease which, spreading widely,
attacks many persons at the same time; as, an epidemic disease; an
epidemic catarrh, fever, etc. See Endemic.
a. Spreading widely, or generally prevailing; affecting
great numbers, as an epidemic does; as, epidemic rage; an epidemic
evil.

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学英语单词
add sth. in
air baffle ring
alternating group fixed and flashing light
automatic meteorologi-cal station
auxiliary valve spring
Ban Yang Ban Pong
bathroom tissues
bespurting
bore of pipe
Brahmoism
brushback
bulliform scale
bybusiness
cabinetry
cadmium sulphide detector
cancer biochemistry
carbonatizations
castilloa rubber
CDCTX
cerebralised
cetorhinuss
Chinese pine
choledochoduodenal
coefficient of fuel feeding
cold rectifying hard-rolled
concertrated wheel load
confounding
devaluations
displacement of labour
ditch digging
electric mine
Equality begins in the grave.
exocoetus
family income and expenditure
ferro coke
finishing stock
fixed radio beacon
genetic programming algorithm
gilt edged shares
gunbelt
hangwomen
hold counsel
homologized
humanisations
hungarite
Hylemyia
Ibanag
Jacobsian
keep someone going
labellist
leucobryum neilgherrense
lift of hydrofoil
Makhmud-Mekteb
market equilibrium
maze (iran)
microinterlocking
modern men
monodelphous
moolgarda seheli
My book has a dark bule cover
nanostorage
network type computer
nonaesthetic
Nummela
optical communication system
paint harling
panacea
pariahs
pastry cooks
Pleophos
pmbl.
post-holiday
pre-punch
pregnogram
pribrams
protection against occupational poisoning
Qin River
qusuriya (al qusuriyah)
regionalisation
regulating well
rock bulk compressibility
rolling pulley
sailing on the port tack
self reactance
septal funnel
severenesses
sgors
short time memory
siziness
smuggling raisins
speaker
splenitis
standard partial regression coefficient
suspension (of the sale of securities)
talky
target identification and acquisition system (tias)
to play truant
top-fiver
transshipped
transtidal wave
urethral cryptitis
valve-push-rod