life

(noun)

A status given to any entity with the properties of reproduction and metabolism, including animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and archaea (single-celled microorganisms).

Related Terms

Examples of life in the following topics:

  • Life Cycle of Small Business

  • The requirements for life

  • Requirements for plant and animal life

  • The development of life on Earth

  • The Life Course

    • The life course approach analyzes people's lives within structural, social, and cultural contexts.
    • The life course approach, also known as the life course perspective, or life course theory, refers to an approach developed in the 1960s for analyzing people's lives within structural, social, and cultural contexts.
    • This is an example that demonstrates the influence of developmental stages on legal determinations of life stages, and thus, attitudes towards people at different stages of the human life course.
    • This man is well into his later years and depicts life in its final stages.
    • This picture depicts an individual at the earliest of life stages.

  • Product Life-Cycle Curve

    • It is important for marketing managers to understand the limitations of the product life cycle model.
    • A given product may hold a unique product life cycle shape such that use of typical product life cycle models are useful only as a rough guide for marketing management.
    • Facebook is in the mature phase of the product life cycle.
    • The iPod touch is currently in the mature phase of the product life cycle.
    • The diagram shows the sales and profits of a given product during the course of the product life cycle.

  • The Product Life Cycle

    • Product development and product life cycles go hand-in-hand.
    • For example, consider the product development and life cycle of a video game.
    • The product life cycle (PLC) describes the life of a product in the market with respect to business/commercial costs and sales measures.
    • Products have a limited life and, thus, every product has a life cycle.
    • The product life cycle begins with the introduction stage (see ).

  • Still-Life Painting

    • Still-life painting flourished during the Golden Age of the Dutch Republic.
    • Early still-lifes were relatively brightly lit, with bouquets of flowers arranged in a simple way.
    • Virtually all still-lifes had a moralistic message, usually concerning the brevity of life.
    • Initially, the subjects of still-life paintings were typically mundane; however, beginning in the mid-century, the pronkstilleven ("ostentatious still-life"), showing expensive and exotic objects, became more popular.
    • Bosschaert was an early still-life painter who established a dynasty of flower painters.

  • More complex organic molecules and life

  • Limited-Life Impairment

    • Limited-life intangibles are amortized throughout the useful life of the intangible asset using either the units of activity or the straight-line method.
    • They are classified into categories: either purchased vs. internally created intangible assets; and limited-life or indefinite-life intangible assets.
    • Limited-life intangibles are intangible assets with a limited useful life, such as copyrights, patents and trademarks
    • Intangible assets with a limited-life are amortized on a straight-line basis over their economic or legal life, based on whichever is shorter.
    • Summarize how to calculate the impairment on a limited life asset