expectation of life


Origin:
1715–25

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Expectation of life is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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In a mortality table, any arbitrary value for to will yield the same expectation of life for each successive age.
Expectation of life at birth and at specified ages.
One indicator of the nation's health is expectation of life at birth.
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