Glossary definition(s) for: longevity
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n., Long life; long duration of existence.
[ General Dictionaries - New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary On Historical Principles ]
New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary On Historical Principles. 5th ed. Edited by Lesley Brown, William R. Trumble, and Angus Stevenson. 2 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Dictionary definition(s) for: longevity
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n., Long life; long duration of existence.
[ General Dictionaries - New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary On Historical Principles ]
New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary On Historical Principles. 5th ed. Edited by Lesley Brown, William R. Trumble, and Angus Stevenson. 2 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
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n., The expectation of the lifespan of a person, culture, and so on.
[ Sciences - Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology ]
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology. Edited by Barbara Ann Kipfer. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2000.
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n., The length of time for which a given information medium remains fit for use under normal conditions, before deterioration and other factors render it unusable. Longevity is affected by inherent vice, preservation procedures (cleaning, storage conditions, etc.), and obsolescence of technology in the case of electronic media.
[ - Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science (ODLIS) ]
Reitz, Joan M.
ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science . Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2004.
http://lu.com/odlis/.
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n., The persistence of an individual for longer than most members of its species, or of a genus or species over a prolonged period of geological time.
[ Sciences - A Dictionary of Ecology ]
