Defenition of the word half life

• Defenition of the word half life

  • the time required for something to fall to half its initial value (in particular, the time for half the atoms in a radioactive substance to disintegrate)

Hypernyms for the word half life

• • amount of time
  • period
  • period of time
  • time period

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