Mortality
Encyclopedia
Mortality is the condition of being mortal, or susceptible to death
; the opposite of immortality
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It may also refer to:
Mortal may refer to:
Death
Death is the permanent termination of the biological functions that sustain a living organism. Phenomena which commonly bring about death include old age, predation, malnutrition, disease, and accidents or trauma resulting in terminal injury....
; the opposite of immortality
Immortality
Immortality is the ability to live forever. It is unknown whether human physical immortality is an achievable condition. Biological forms have inherent limitations which may or may not be able to be overcome through medical interventions or engineering...
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It may also refer to:
- Mortality rateMortality rateMortality rate is a measure of the number of deaths in a population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit time...
, a measure of the number of deaths in a given population - Case mortality rateCase fatalityIn epidemiology, case fatality or fatality rate, is the ratio of deaths within a designated population of people with a particular condition, over a certain period of time. An example of a fatality rate would be 9 deaths per 10,000 people at risk per year...
, a measure of the number of deaths among a set of diagnosed hospital illness or injury cases - Mortality displacementMortality displacementMortality displacement denotes a temporal shift in the rate of mortality in a given population, usually attributable to environmental phenomena such as heat waves or cold spells....
- Mortality dragMortality dragMortality drag is a term used, in reference to lifetime annuities, to describe a negative impact that is experienced when an annuity purchase is delayed on a fund from which regular withdrawals are being taken by an individual. It is the increasing risk of falling annuity rates, and grows...
- Mortality (band), a thrash metal band from Sydney, Australia
- Mortality (computability theory)Mortality (computability theory)In computability theory, the mortality problem is a decision problem which can be stated as follows:In the statement above, the configuration is a pair , where q is one of the machine's states and w is an infinite sequence of symbols representing the initial content of the tape...
, a property of a Turing machine if it halts when run on any starting configuration
Mortal may refer to:
- HumanHumanHumans are the only living species in the Homo genus...
, as distinct from a supernatural being - Mortal (band)Mortal (band)Mortal was a Christian industrial/dance band fronted by Jerome Fontamillas and Jyro Xhan. Both members went on to found the alternative rock group Fold Zandura, and for a time were members of both bands simultaneously...
, a Christian industrial band - Mortal Kombat, a fighting game series