microlife
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Etymology edit
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microlife (countable and uncountable, plural microlives)
- (uncountable) Microorganisms collectively.
- (countable) A unit of risk representing half an hour change of life expectancy.
- Coordinate term: micromort
- 2012 February 16, David Spiegelhalter, “Microlives: A lesson in risk taking”, in BBC Future[1]:
- If you have unhealthy habits, it costs you microlives. If you smoke, each cigarette reduces your life expectancy on average by around 15 minutes, so two cigarettes loses you a microlife.
