「life」は名詞として、「生命」「生活」「人生」「寿命」「生き方」「生物」「活力」などの意味を持つ英単語である。
「life」が名詞として使われる場合、生命を持つ存在、日々の暮らし、個人の存在期間、特定の生き方や生物全般、そして精力や活気を示す。
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出典:国際連合
The Lexis diagram 1 is commonly used to illustrate the usual method for computing death probabilities and other demographic measures. In this diagram, every individual is represented by a life line 2 which begins at birth and ends in the point of death 3. A method for the study of mortality at very advanced ages has been called the method of extinct generations 4, because it uses observed deaths for cohorts which have been completely eliminated by mortality.
出典:Wiktionary
出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/06/28 22:16 UTC 版)
Life (cf. biota) is a characteristic that distinguishes objects that have signaling and self-sustaining processes (i. e., living organisms) from those that do not, either because such functions have ceased (death), or else because they lack such functions and are classified as inanimate. Biology is the science concerned with the study of life.
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