life cycle

See also: lifecycle

English

Alternative forms

• lifecycle

Noun

life cycle (plural life cycles)

1. (biology) The course of stages through which an organism passes from fertilized zygote until maturity, reproduction, and death.
   • 2013 September-October, Kayri Havens, Sandra Henderson, “Citizen Science Takes Root”, in American Scientist:

     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).

2. (by extension) The useful life of a product or system; the developmental history of an individual or group in society.

Hyponyms

• software life cycle

Descendants

• Japanese: ライフサイクル (raifusaikuru)

Translations

course of stages through which an organism passes

• Afrikaans: lewensiklus
• Burmese: ဇီဝစက် (my) (jiwa.cak)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 生命週期／生命周期 (zh) (shēngmìng zhōuqī), 生命周期 (shēngmìng zhōuqí)

• Danish: livscyklus
• Dutch: levenscyclus (nl)
• Finnish: elinkaari (fi)
• French: cycle de vie (fr) m
• German: Lebenszyklus (de) m
• Irish: timthriall na beatha m
• Italian: ciclo di vita m, ciclo vitale m
• Japanese: 生活環 (せいかつかん, seikatsukan), ライフサイクル (ja) (raifusaikuru)
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• Korean: 라이프 사이클 (raipeu saikeul)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: livssyklus m

  Nynorsk: livssyklus m

• Persian: چرخه حیات (سالار)
• Portuguese: ciclo de vida m
• Romanian: ciclu de viață n
• Russian: жи́зненный цикл m (žíznennyj cikl)
• Spanish: ciclo de vida m, ciclo vital m
• Tagalog: ikot-buhay
• Turkish: ömür müddeti, ömür süresi, yaşam çevrimi, yaşam süresi, kullanım süresi
• Vietnamese: vòng đời

useful life of a product or system; developmental history of an individual or group

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 生命週期／生命周期 (zh) (shēngmìng zhōuqī), 生命周期 (shēngmìng zhōuqī)

• Finnish: elinkaari (fi)
• German: Lebenszyklus (de) m
• Italian: ciclo di vita m, ciclo vitale m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: livssyklus m

  Nynorsk: livssyklus m

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• Portuguese: ciclo de vida m
• Romanian: ciclu de viață m
• Russian: жи́зненный цикл m (žíznennyj cikl)
• Spanish: ciclo de vida m