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mortality |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Mortality \Mor*tal"i*ty\, n. [L. mortalitas: cf F. mortalit['e].] 1. The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying. When I saw her die, I then did think on your mortality. --Carew. 2. Human life; the life of a mortal being From this instant There 's nothing serious in mortality. --Shak. 3. Those who are or that which is mortal; the human cace; humanity; human nature. Take these tears, mortality's relief. --Pope. 4. Death; destruction. --Shak. 5. The whole sum or number of deaths in a given time or a given community; also the proportion of deaths to population, or to a specific number of the population; death rate; as a time of great, or low mortality; the mortality among the settlers was alarming. {Bill of mortality}. See under {Bill}. {Law of mortality}, a mathematical relation between the numbers living at different ages, so that from a given large number of persons alive at one age, it can be computed what number are likely to survive a given number of years. {Table of mortality}, a table exhibiting the average relative number of persons who survive, or who have died, at the end of each year of life, out of a given number supposed to have been born at the same time. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: mortality n 1: the quality or state of being mortal [ant: {immortality}] 2: the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year [syn: {deathrate}, {morbidity}, {mortality rate}]
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