percapita

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See also: per capita and per cápita

English

Adjective

percapita (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of per capita
    • 2009 February 6, Andrew Z. Krug et al., “Signature of the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction in the Modern Biota”, in Science, volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 767–771:
      This form of percapita rate, derived from branching theory, is robust to variation in the true extinction rate, including events as dramatic as mass extinctions.