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mortality
n. state of having a limited life span; rate of death


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Mortality
Mortality may refer to:The quality of being mortal, i.e. susceptible to death.Opposite of immortality, which may or may not refer to human as distinct from supernatural.Mortality rate, a measure of the number of deaths in some population.Mortality (band), a death metal band from Sydney, Australia.In computability theory, a Turing machine is said to be mortal if it halts when run on any starting configuration.
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mortality
Noun
1. the quality or state of being mortal
(antonym) immortality
(hypernym) impermanence, impermanency
2. the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year
(synonym) deathrate, death rate, morbidity, mortality rate, fatality rate
(hypernym) rate
(hyponym) infant deathrate, infant mortality, infant mortality rate


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Mortality
(n.)
Those who are, or that which is, mortal; the human cace; humanity; human nature.
  
 
(n.)
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; as, a time of great, or low, mortality; the mortality among the settlers was alarming.
  
 
(n.)
The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying.
  
 
(n.)
Human life; the life of a mortal being.
  
 
(n.)
Death; destruction.
  

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Death rate.

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