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FATALITY RATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year
Synonyms:
death rate; deathrate; fatality rate; mortality; mortality rate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("fatality rate" is a kind of...):
rate (a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fatality rate"):
infant deathrate; infant mortality; infant mortality rate (the death rate during the first year of life)
neonatal mortality; neonatal mortality rate (the death rate during the first 28 days of life)
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