Name for measure of non-injectivity of a covering map

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Suppose that $p:C\to X$ is a covering map. For $x\in X$, is there a name for the number $Card(p^{-1}(x))$?

So that for $p(z)=z^5:\mathbb{C}\setminus\{0\}\to\mathbb{C}\setminus\{0\}$, one might say "The ***** of $w$ under $p$ is $5$".