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microlives

microlives is the plural of microlife.

Meaning of microlife

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

Questions about microlives

What is microlives the plural of?
Microlives is the plural of microlife.

Words near microlives in the dictionary

  1. microliths
  2. microlitic
  3. microlitre
  4. microlitres
  5. microlitter
  6. microlives
  7. microloan
  8. microloans
  9. microlobate
  10. microlobulated
  11. microlobulation

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