Sterblichkeit — meaning in English

English meaning

• lethality noun The fact of something being lethal; the ability of something to kill.
• mortality noun The fact of being subject to death; the condition of eventually dying.

Senses

Sterblichkeit is used for these senses in English:

• lethality The degree of lethal (mortal) danger that something (usually a disease or a weapon) presents; the magnitude of its power to kill organisms exposed to it; this property is indirectly measured by any of various proxy rates, including mortality rate, case fatality rate, or infection fatality rate (for diseases) or kill rate (for weapons, pesticides, or parasites).

lethality — full definition

1. noun The fact of something being lethal; the ability of something to kill.
2. noun The degree of lethal (mortal) danger that something (usually a disease or a weapon) presents; the magnitude of its power to kill organisms exposed to it; this property is indirectly measured by any of various proxy rates, including mortality rate, case fatality rate, or infection fatality rate (for diseases) or kill rate (for weapons, pesticides, or parasites).

mortality — full definition

1. noun The fact of being subject to death; the condition of eventually dying.
2. noun The rate of death in a population, usually measured per year or per some fixed number of people.

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