life table
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of life table
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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Arias and her colleagues calculated life expectancy using a technique called a period life table.
From Scientific American • Oct. 17, 2022
These demographic characteristics are often displayed in the form of a life table.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Developing a comprehensive life table will show the trajectory of a population.
From Washington Post • Jul. 10, 2017
An example of a life table is shown in Table 19.1 from a study of Dall mountain sheep, a species native to northwestern North America.
From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013
You value Jones’s wealth by his prospect of life on a life table, and Robinson has the balance.
From Essays in Liberalism Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922 by Various
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