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BW2/3 Posted 20 years ago
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a spike

The law-enforcement officals first began noticing a spike in fentanyl-heroin overdoses in November.

What does it mean " a spike " in " in fentanyl-heroin overdoses " ?

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A spike on a graph or on a histogram of FH overdoses vs. time. That is, in November the number of overdoses singnifically increased and falled to about its normal value later, thus having formed a spike.

  • A spike on a graph or on a histogram of FH overdoses vs.
  • time.
  • That is, in November the number of overdoses singnifically increased and falled to about its normal value later, thus having formed a spike.
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A spike on a graph or on a histogram of FH overdoses vs. time.

That is, in November the number of overdoses singnifically increased and falled to about its normal value later, thus having formed a spike.
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a "peak," a sharp increase

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