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1Life cycle — refers to: * Biological life cycle ** Honey bee life cycle * Life cycle of a nation * New product development * Product life cycle management * LIFECYCLE Fundraising * Software life cycle * Adobe LifeCycle …
2life cycle — life cycles 1) N COUNT: usu with poss The life cycle of an animal or plant is the series of changes and developments that it passes through from the beginning of its life until its death. The dormant period is another stage in the life cycle of… …
3life cycle — The term is first recorded in 1873 in its biological meaning ‘the series of changes in the life of an organism’, and this is the only meaning given in the current edition (2006) of the Concise Oxford Dictionary. During the course of the 20c,… …
4life cycle — n 1) the series of stages in form and functional activity through which an organism passes between successive recurrences of a specified primary stage 2) LIFE HISTORY (1a) * * * the successive events in the life history of an organism, such as… …
5life cycle — life .cycle n all the different levels of development that an animal or plant goes through during its life …
6life cycle — life ,cycle noun count 1. ) the series of changes that happen to an animal or plant during its life 2. ) the length of time that something lasts or remains useful …
7life cycle — ► NOUN ▪ the series of changes in the life of an organism including reproduction …
8life cycle — life cycle. См. жизненный цикл. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …
9life cycle — n. 1. the series of developmental changes in form undergone by a particular type of organism from its earliest stage to the recurrence of the same stage in the next generation 2. any series of changes like this …
10life cycle — 1. Biol. the continuous sequence of changes undergone by an organism from one primary form, as a gamete, to the development of the same form again. 2. a series of stages, as childhood and middle age, that characterize the course of existence of… …