| Definition of 'infant mortality' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) infant deathrate, infant mortality, infant mortality rate
the death rate during the first year of life
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| Definitions of 'infant mortality' |
The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. infant mortality
It is common lore among hackers (and in the electronics industry at
large; this term is possibly techspeak by now) that the chances of sudden
hardware failure drop off exponentially with a machine's time since first
use (that is, until the relatively distant time at which enough mechanical
wear in I/O devices and thermal-cycling stress in components has
accumulated for the machine to start going senile). Up to half of all chip
and wire failures happen within a new system's first few weeks; such
failures are often referred to as infant
mortality problems (or, occasionally, as sudden infant death syndrome). See
bathtub curve,
burn-in period.
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| Definition of 'infant mortality' |
U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. infant mortality
Postnatal deaths from BIRTH to 365 days after birth in a given population. Postneonatal mortality represents deaths between 28 days and 365 days after birth (as defined by National Center for Health Statistics). Neonatal mortality represents deaths from birth to 27 days after birth.
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