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DEATH RATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year
Synonyms:
death rate; deathrate; fatality rate; mortality; mortality rate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("death rate" is a kind of...):
rate (a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "death rate"):
infant deathrate; infant mortality; infant mortality rate (the death rate during the first year of life)
neonatal mortality; neonatal mortality rate (the death rate during the first 28 days of life)
Context examples:
High death rate from hemorrhage due to blood platelet disease (Harrington 1981).
(IR, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)
Women with the highest levels of vegetation, or greenness, near their homes had a 12 percent lower death rate compared to women with the lowest levels of vegetation near their homes.
(Greenness around homes linked to lower mortality, NIH)
The atlas will not tell researchers why death rates are higher in certain localities than in others, but it will provide important clues for further in-depth studies into the causes and control of cancer.
(Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the United States, NCI Thesaurus)
When researchers compared women in the areas with highest greenness to women in the lowest, they found a 41 percent lower death rate for kidney disease, 34 percent lower death rate for respiratory disease, and 13 percent lower death rate for cancer in the greenest areas.
(Greenness around homes linked to lower mortality, NIH)
