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LIFETIME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)
Example:
he lived a long and happy life
Synonyms:
life; life-time; lifespan; lifetime
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("lifetime" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Meronyms (parts of "lifetime"):
birth (the time when something begins (especially life))
death; demise; dying (the time when something ends)
time of life (a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state)
age; eld (a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lifetime"):
afterlife; hereafter (life after death)
Context examples:
We are lucky to be around to see Saturn’s ring system, which appears to be in the middle of its lifetime.
(Saturn is Losing Its Rings, NASA)
Half of all men and a third of women will get a diagnosis of cancer in their lifetime.
(Cancer--Living with Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)
In their findings, the researchers found that human brains that possess even one copy of apoE4 are over twice as likely to eventually develop Alzheimer's disease within their lifetime.
(Alzheimer's Disease Gene Successfully Removed From Human Brain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Autism lasts throughout a person's lifetime.
(Autism, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)
It needs a lot of energy to form and is very reactive, which means its lifetime is very short and it can’t be transported far.
(ALMA Finds Huge Hidden Reservoirs of Turbulent Gas in Distant Galaxies, ESO)
It is thought that tidal heating has extended the lifetimes of subsurface oceans on Europa and Enceladus by keeping their interiors warm.
(Cracks in Pluto's moon could indicate it once had an underground ocean, NASA)
This relatively short period in a star's life lasts just a few tens of thousands of years – compared to the overall lifetime of several billion.
(Giant Bubbles on Red Giant Star’s Surface, ESO)
Global CO2 levels will not return to values below 400 ppm in our lifetimes, and almost certainly for much longer.
(South Pole is last place on Earth to pass global warming milestone, NOAA)
The illness usually lasts a lifetime.
(Bipolar Disorder, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)
Mrs. Reynolds informed them that it had been taken in his father's lifetime.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
