Life Cycle Definition

lifecycle
noun
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.
Webster's New World
A progression through a series of differing stages of development.
The life cycle of a star.
American Heritage Medicine
Any series of changes like this.
Webster's New World
The span of a product's existence from its initial development through the period of marketing and active use to eventual obsolescence.
American Heritage Medicine

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

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Other Word Forms of Life Cycle

Noun

Singular:
life cycle
Plural:
life-cycles

Life Cycle Sentence Examples

  • Parthenogenesis is of normal occurrence in the life-cycle of many Hymenoptera.

  • Generally the larval is the feeding, the imaginal the breeding, stage of the life-cycle.

  • In one of the best-known species, Cicada septemdecim, from North America, the life-cycle is said to extend over seventeen years.

  • The difficulty of tracing the relationships of algae is largely due to the inadequacy of our knowledge of the conditions under which they pass through the critical stages of their life-cycle.

  • In fresh-water Hydromedusae the life-cycle is usually secondarily simplified, but in marine forms the life-cycle may be extremely complicated, and a given species often passes in the course of its history through widely different forms adapted to different habitats and modes of life.

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ELECLE

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