mortality (redirected from mortality rates)

mor·tal·i·ty  (môr-tl-t)

n. pl. mor·tal·i·ties

1. The quality or condition of being mortal.

2. Mortals considered as a group; the human race.

3. Death, especially of large numbers; heavy loss of life: the mortality wrought by an epidemic.

4. Death rate.

5. The rate of failure or loss: the high mortality among family-run farms.

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mortality

Noun

pl -ties

1. the condition of being mortal

2. great loss of life, as in war or disaster

3. the number of deaths in a given period

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	mortality - the quality or state of being mortal impermanence, impermanency - the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations immortality - the quality or state of being immortal
	2.	mortality - the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year death rate, deathrate, fatality rate, mortality 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 rate - a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit; "they traveled at a rate of 55 miles per hour"; "the rate of change was faster than expected"

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mortality

noun 1. humanity, transience, impermanence, ephemerality, temporality, corporeality, impermanency

noun 2. death, dying, fatality, loss of life

Translations

mortality [mɔːˈtælɪtɪ] n → mortalidad f

mortality [mɔːˈtælɪtɪ] n → mortalité f

mortality [mɔːˈtælɪtɪ] mortal n → Sterblichkeit f;

(number of deaths) → Todesfälle pl

mortality [mɔːˈtælɪtɪ] n → mortalità