life cycles
life cycles is the plural of life cycle.
Meaning of life cycle
Noun
life cycle (plural life cycles)
- The course of stages through which an organism passes from fertilized zygote until maturity, reproduction, and death.
- Meronym: life forms
- Synonyms:
- biological life
- The useful life of a product or system; the developmental history of an individual or group in society.
- Since it began operating in 1950, Sellafield has had different duties. First it manufactured plutonium for nuclear weapons. Then it generated electricity for the National Grid, until 2003. It also carried out years of fuel reprocessing: extracting uranium and plutonium from nuclear fuel rods after...2022 December 15, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2023
Questions about life cycles
- What is life cycles the plural of?
- Life cycles is the plural of life cycle.
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