mortality

1 the quality or state of being mortal [ant: immortality]

2 the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year [syn: deathrate, death rate, morbidity, mortality rate, fatality rate]

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Noun

mortality

1. The condition of being susceptible to death

Derived terms

• immortality

Related terms

• mortal

Translations

Mortality is the condition of being mortal, or susceptible to death; the opposite of immortality.

It may also refer to:

• Mortality rate, a measure of the number of deaths in a given population.
• Mortality (band), a death metal band from Sydney, Australia.
• Mortality (computability theory), in computability theory, a property of a Turing machine if it halts when run on any starting configuration.

Mortal may refer to:

• Human, as distinct from a supernatural being.
• Mortal (band), a Christian industrial band.

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