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life cy·cle

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. life cyclenoun

    a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage

  2. life cyclenoun

    the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced

Wiktionary

  1. life cyclenoun

    the course of stages through which an organism passes from fertilized zygote until maturity, reproduction, and death

  2. life cyclenoun

    the useful life of a product or system; the developmental history of an individual or group in society

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  1. life cycle

    A life cycle refers to the series of changes or stages that an organism or an object goes through during its lifetime, starting from its creation or birth till its natural end or death. This can involve growth, reproduction, activity and eventual aging. In the context of products or systems, the life cycle includes all the stages from development, production, utilization, maintenance, to eventual disposal.

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  1. Life Cycle

    Life Cycle is the first studio album by the progressive metal band Sieges Even. The album is known for being a speed metal album, which in their next album they embarked on a change in their sound.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

  1. life cycle

    The total phases through which an item passes from the time it is initially developed until the time it is either consumed in use or disposed of as being excess to all known materiel requirements.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of life cycle in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of life cycle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of life cycle in a Sentence

  1. Phillip Cleves:

    Corals are facing unprecedented declines due to climate change, motivating researchers to understand molecular basis of their thermal tolerance, how they complete their life cycle, and interactions with algae that live inside them, our ability to understand how specific genes contribute to these traits in corals is held back by the lack of methods to test how a particular gene functions in corals.

  2. Veryan Khan:

    By Boko Haram pledging to the Islamic State, Shekau has secured a safe haven for Boko Haram's leadership. Even if the current Nigerian offensives are to succeed, a temporary escape could be made to another IS stronghold from where Boko Haram's life cycle can be maintained irrespective of distance.

  3. Philipp Heck:

    With this study, we have directly determined the lifetimes of stardust. We hope this will be picked up and studied so that people can use this as input for models of the whole galactic life cycle, it's so exciting to look at the history of our galaxy. Stardust is the oldest material to reach Earth, and from it, we can learn about our parent stars, the origin of the carbon in our bodies [ and ] the origin of the oxygen we breathe. With stardust, we can trace that material back to the time before the sun.

  4. Stockdale Walden:

    What happens is that the parasite gets into humans -- humans are not the host that it can complete its life cycle in, as opposed to being in a rat -- so when it gets in a human, it can get lost, and it will go to the brain, and it'll stay there, when it gets to the brain, you can have eosinophilic meningitis.

  5. Natan Bar-Chama:

    Men don't access health care with the same seriousness as women do, women regularly visit their ob/gyn from early on in their reproductive life cycle... but men are often neither proactive or preventative in their approach to medical care.


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