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lethality
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Word definitions for lethality in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lethality (also called deadliness or perniciousness ) is how capable something is of causing death. Most often it is used when referring to chemical weapons , biological weapons , or their toxic chemical components. The use of this term denotes the ability ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 the fact of something being lethal; the ability of something to kill 2 the rate of death of organisms exposed to something
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lethality \Le*thal"i*ty\ (l[-e]*th[a^]l"[i^]*t[y^]), n. [Cf. F. l['e]thalit['e].] The quality of being lethal; mortality.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being deadly [syn: deadliness ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from lethal + -ity .
Usage examples of lethality.
Even best case, the calculated exposure fell high on the lethality curve.
Allowed to range unchecked, argued the Sharman team, a virus demonstrating 100 percent lethality must eventually bring about the extinction of the host organism.
Not a few of the officers and soldiers were terrified at thoughts of even entering that dim, damp, death-crawling realm of the sinister fen-men, who were seldom seen and who killed from a distance with blowgun darts steeped in poisonsestimates of the actual distance, accuracy and lethality of the poisons varied greatly, dependent mostly upon just how close was the individual speaker to fear-induced hysteria at the time of the telling.
Within six months, we'll have the ability to overwhelm Trigger-based defenses and use our conventional weaponry to apply any degree of destructive lethality appropriate to our objectives.
Now, the other issue is the accuracy and lethality of kinetic-energy weapons.
Some wild, reckless, primal piece of me had always loved the danger, the adrenaline, had always loved testing myself against the various and sundry would-be lethalities that crossed my paths.