Mortality

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  • noun. The quality or condition of being mortal.
  • noun. Mortals considered as a group; the human race.
  • noun. Death, especially of large numbers; heavy loss of life.
  • noun. Death rate.
  • noun. The rate of failure or loss.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The condition or character of being mortal, or of being subject to death, or to the necessity of dying.
  • noun. Death.
  • noun. Frequency of death; numerousness of deaths; deaths in relation to their numbers: as, a time of great mortality.
  • noun. Specifically, the number of deaths in proportion to population: usually stated as the number of deaths per thousand of population.
  • noun. The duration of human life.
  • noun. Humanity; human nature; the human race.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying.
  • noun. Human life; the life of a mortal being.
  • noun. Those who are, or that which is, mortal; the human race; humanity; human nature.
  • noun. Death; destruction.
  • noun. The whole sum or number of deaths in a given time or a given community; also, the proportion of deaths to population, or to a specific number of the population; death rate
  • noun. See under Bill.
  • noun. a mathematical relation between the numbers living at different ages, so that from a given large number of persons alive at one age, it can be computed what number are likely to survive a given number of years.
  • noun. a table exhibiting the average relative number of persons who survive, or who have died, at the end of each year of life, out of a given number supposed to have been born at the same time.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The condition of being susceptible to death
  • noun. The death rate of a population
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the quality or state of being mortal
  • noun. the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year
  • Word Usage
    ""Socioeconomic disparity in mortality is pervasive, and it continues to increase," said Ahmedin Jemal, an epidemiologist at the American Cancer Society who lead the study."
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