INFANT MORTALITY RATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The death rate during the first year of life

Synonyms:

infant deathrate; infant mortality; infant mortality rate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("infant mortality rate" is a kind of...):

death rate; deathrate; fatality rate; mortality; mortality rate (the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year)

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