"lethality" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: lethalities [plural]
Rhymes: -ælɪti Etymology: From lethal + -ity. Etymology templates: {{suf|en|lethal|ity}} lethal + -ity Head templates: {{en-noun}} lethality (plural lethalities)
  1. The fact of something being lethal; the ability of something to kill. Translations (ability of something to kill): леталност (letalnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), Letalitéit [feminine] (Luxembourgish)
    Sense id: en-lethality-en-noun-en:capability Disambiguation of 'ability of something to kill': 95 5
  2. The degree of lethal (mortal) danger that something (usually a disease or a weapon) presents; the magnitude of its power to kill organisms exposed to it; this property is indirectly measured by any of various proxy rates, including mortality rate, case fatality rate, or infection fatality rate (for diseases) or kill rate (for weapons, pesticides, or parasites). Translations (rate of death): смъртност (smǎrtnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), Sterblichkeit [feminine] (German), Letalität [feminine] (German)
    Sense id: en-lethality-en-noun-en:magnitude_of_the_capability Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ity Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 87 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ity: 18 82 Disambiguation of 'rate of death': 26 74
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: deadliness Derived forms: synthetic lethality Coordinate_terms: fatality, mortality, killability

Inflected forms

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