What is "lifespan"

Usage examples of "lifespan".

She was the tway of Sappho, the tway of an Ash Ock Paratwa, one half of a mind-linked creature with a lifespan measured in centuries.

Even the most inorganic thinker or scientifico, the crassest materialist or mechanist, is subject to his own destiny, his own soul, his own character, his own lifespan, and outside this framework of destiny his free, unbound flight of causal fancy cannot deliver him.

A nation has a lifespan and belongs to the strongest organic unities within a Culture.

But the impacts happened even so, and to a creature with a lifespan of, say, ten million years, would not have seemed so improbable at all.

Not to worry, recent medical studies tell us that Italy's taste for canola oil, olive oil and wine helps extend the average lifespan and helps prevent heart disease in Italiansso you picked the right place to retire to.

One strong enough to found a World Gate, or bind added lifespan arcanely into water,- but Arithon shied from voicing the thought.

Both maintain regenerative information in a bioplasmic field around their bodies, both can recycle the entropic process to prolong their lifespan.

It had survived beyond all calculable lifespan, and there was nothing left of the old world except for sacred fragments that could only be defiled by the overpowering might of the humans.

I'm forty-nine years old, and I've had three heart attacks, but I think a young cooze like that could add another twenty years to my lifespan.

Apart from one rare exception (see "Mother," below) a symbiont leech is capable of producing only one cryptogenetic "egg" during its lifespan.

Or how beings such as ourselves—such as you now are—with lifespans measured in centuries and strength and endurance far beyond that of Terra-born humans, could decivilize so utterly?

Or how beings such as ourselves-such as you now are-with lifespans measured in centuries and strength and endurance far beyond that of Terra-born humans, could decivilize so utterly?

Since longevity is invariably a result of vampirism, barring accidental death or fatal diseases the lifespan of the victim, then a vampire in his own right, might easily extend to many hundreds and perhaps even thousands of years.

The term had bothered him from the start, for as a spacer he'd already endured more than his share of medical guinea pigdom, but the thought of an extended lifespan and enhanced strength had been seductive.

The enlightened are too busy worrying that you're going to eat a food additive that'll shave three and a half days off your lifespan.