lifespan
IPA: ɫˈaɪfspæn
noun
- The length of time for which an organism lives.
- (by extension) The length of time for which something exists or is current, valid, or usable.
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Examples of "lifespan" in Sentences
- Average lifespan is not a meaningful indicator of health care.
- You mean the same UK where the lifespan is 79.3 years rather than 78 years for the US?
- So if researchers want to achieve big gains in lifespan and healthspan they have to go after the aging process itself.
- As it is, our reproductive lifespan is confined into the time when we should be setting up a stable environment for a family.
- In other words, the energy impact of building and driving a car during its lifespan is less than that required to keep a dog alive during its lifespan.
- The gun and bullets are both my capacity to create something of merit and the subject matter, and my lifespan is the time in which I can go around shooting things.
- They die within a day; their lifespan is accelerated because time works on them differently, just as time works differently on a Galapagos tortoise and a Rattus rattus.
- "We have a current industrial system where nobody knows what's in our materials, and there's no plan for where they go with those chemicals when their lifespan is over."
- Overall, these snow complainers need to be reminded of the fact that their lifespan is finite, and as such, there will be a time in a few short years, when they're going to be dead.
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