life cycle en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /ˈlaɪf ˌsaɪ.kəl/
Etymology
From life + cycle.
Meanings
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The course of stages through which an organism passes from fertilized zygote until maturity, reproduction, and death.
Meronym: life forms
New insights into bee movements and life cycles have been uncovered after researchers tracked the insects using tiny QR codes glued onto their backs.
2025 January 28, Jack Guy, “Tiny QR codes help scientists track bee movements”, in CNN, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2025:Plants’ life cycles are an attractive subject of study for citizen science because they are relatively easy to discern. In fact, the name for the field in which we work, phenology, literally means “the science of appearance.” The word was coined just a few years after Thoreau made his phenological observations, from the Greek phaino (to show or appear) and logos (to study).
2013 September-October, Kayri Havens, Sandra Henderson, “Citizen Science Takes Root”, in American Scientist:
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(broadly) The useful life of a product or system; the developmental history of an individual or group in society.
Since it began operating in 1950, Sellafield has had different duties. First it manufactured plutonium for nuclear weapons. Then it generated electricity for the National Grid, until 2003. It also carried out years of fuel reprocessing: extracting uranium and plutonium from nuclear fuel rods after they’d ended their life cycles.
2022 December 15, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2023:
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| lifecycle | alternative | lexicographic |
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Translations (45)
af lewensiklus (course of stages through which an organism passes) · cmn 生命週期 /生命周期 (course of stages through which an organism passes) · ms kitaran hayat (course of stages through which an organism passes) · ko 라이프 사이클 (course of stages through which an organism passes) · ja ライフサイクル (course of stages through which an organism passes) · it ciclo di vita (course of stages through which an organism passes) · fr cycle de vie (course of stages through which an organism passes) · ro ciclu de viață (useful life of a product or system; developmental history of an individual or group) · fa چرخه حیات (course of stages through which an organism passes) · fi elinkaari (course of stages through which an organism passes) · fi elinkaari (useful life of a product or system; developmental history of an individual or group) · pt ciclo de vida (useful life of a product or system; developmental history of an individual or group) · nl levenscyclus (course of stages through which an organism passes) · id daur hidup (course of stages through which an organism passes) · af lewensiklus (useful life of a product or system; developmental history of an individual or group) · ro ciclu de viață (course of stages through which an organism passes) · da livscyklus (course of stages through which an organism passes) · ga timthriall na beatha (course of stages through which an organism passes) · de Lebenszyklus (useful life of a product or system; developmental history of an individual or group) · my ဇီဝစက် (course of stages through which an organism passes) · tl ikot-buhay (course of stages through which an organism passes) · it ciclo vitale (course of stages through which an organism passes) · pt ciclo de vida (course of stages through which an organism passes) · fa عمر (useful life of a product or system; developmental history of an individual or group) · pl cykl życia (course of stages through which an organism passes) · ru жи́зненный цикл (useful life of a product or system; developmental history of an individual or group) · nn livssyklus (useful life of a product or system; developmental history of an individual or group) · vi vòng đời (course of stages through which an organism passes) · it ciclo vitale (useful life of a product or system; developmental history of an individual or group) · ru жи́зненный цикл (course of stages through which an organism passes) · es ciclo vital (course of stages through which an organism passes) · nb livssyklus (useful life of a product or system; developmental history of an individual or group) · fa طول عمر (useful life of a product or system; developmental history of an individual or group) · nn livssyklus (course of stages through which an organism passes) · fa دورزیست (course of stages through which an organism passes) · sv livscykel (course of stages through which an organism passes) · es ciclo de vida (course of stages through which an organism passes) · nb livssyklus (course of stages through which an organism passes) · ja 生活環 (course of stages through which an organism passes) · tr yaşam döngüsü (course of stages through which an organism passes) · it ciclo di vita (useful life of a product or system; developmental history of an individual or group) · id siklus hidup (course of stages through which an organism passes) · cmn 生命週期 /生命周期 (useful life of a product or system; developmental history of an individual or group) · es ciclo de vida (useful life of a product or system; developmental history of an individual or group) · de Lebenszyklus (course of stages through which an organism passes)