average life

American  

noun

Physics.

1. mean life.

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Example Sentences

Apollo set the 5% limit to reflect the average life of the BDC’s underlying assets and the anticipated time span of investor commitments.

From The Wall Street Journal

One problem, as Fronstin puts it, is that “average” life expectancy doesn’t really help any individual very much — half of people will live longer than the average, and some will live much longer.

From MarketWatch

It took generations to get public health to the point we enjoy now, where average life expectancy in many places exceeds 80 years and we don’t have to worry too much about diseases like polio, smallpox or even relative newcomers like HIV.

From Salon

Average life expectancy in Denmark, at 80, is 10 years higher than in Greenland.

From The Wall Street Journal

“That poor family…Those pilots go up there day after day to fight off the German attacks. Did you hear that the average life expectancy for a Spitfire pilot is just four weeks?”

From Literature