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microlife

microlife noun: microorganisms collectively.

Noun

microlife (countable and uncountable, plural microlives)

  1. (uncountable) Microorganisms collectively.
  2. (countable) A unit of risk representing half an hour change of life expectancy.
    • If you have unhealthy habits, it costs you microlives. If you smoke, each cigarette reduces your life expectancy on average by around 15 minutes, so two cigarettes loses you a microlife. […] And for every extra 5kg you are overweight, it will cost you around one microlife a day. […] If you survive...2012 February 16, David Spiegelhalter, “Microlives: A lesson in risk taking”, in BBC Future

Forms of microlife

pluralmicrolives

Origin of microlife

From micro- + life.

Questions about microlife

What does microlife mean?
Microlife means microorganisms collectively.
What part of speech is microlife?
Microlife is a noun.
What is the plural of microlife?
The plural of microlife is microlives.

Words near microlife in the dictionary

  1. microlibrary
  2. microlichen
  3. microlichens
  4. microlidar
  5. microlidars
  6. microlife
  7. microlight
  8. microlighter
  9. microlighters
  10. microlighting
  11. microlights

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