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| Domain | Definition |
Electrical Engineering | The operational life, under irradiation and environmental conditions restricted within specified limits, after which the detector characteristics exceed the specified tolerances. Useful life can be expressed in incident particle fluence, number of produced pulses, etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
Finance | The period during which an asset is estimated to provide useful service to a business, and upon which the rate of depreciation allowed will normally depend. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: USEFUL LIFE |
| English words defined with "USEFUL LIFE": rehabilitated. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "USEFUL LIFE": declining balance depreciation method ♦ Frankenputer ♦ hard goods, hard line merchandise, haulage drum ♦ LIFE-CYCLE COST ♦ Pest resistance management plans, preservative agent ♦ straight-line depreciation ♦ Waste, radioactive. (references) |
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Books | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Since 1994, when the Dominican government enacted Decree 6-94 reducing import duties to used cars, there were 200,000 used cars imported into the D.R. There is also a general tendency in the Dominican Republic to overextend the useful life of vehicles due to their high cost. This influences the increasing demand for automotive parts and services. (references) | |
Economic History | Ireland | Certain products and equipment require servicing to maintain their useful life. (references) |
Guyana | Since the cost of new vehicles is prohibitive for most people and labor costs for vehicle repair are relatively low, cars and trucks have a much longer useful life than in the United States. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expression using "USEFUL LIFE": estimated useful life. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
useful life | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "USEFUL LIFE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | levetid (and upon which the rate of depreciation allowed will normally depend, chemical lifetime, chemical residence time, economic life-time, life, life cycle, life of a lamp, life span, lifetime, long life, longevity, product life, productive life, residence time, the period during which an asset is estimated to provide useful service to a business, useful economic life, working life), anvendelsestid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | rendabele levensduur, praktische levensduur, nuttige levensduur, gebruiksduur (and upon which the rate of depreciation allowed will normally depend, the period during which an asset is estimated to provide useful service to a business, working life), gebruikelijke levensduur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | elinikä (lifetime). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vie utile (useful lifespan), durée de vie utile, durée de vie économique (the period during which an asset is estimated to provide useful service to a business, useful economic life), durée de service. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Nutzungsdauer (and upon which the rate of depreciation allowed will normally depend, the period during which an asset is estimated to provide useful service to a business, utilisation, utilization, working life). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ωφέλιμη διάρκεια ζωής, χρήσιμη ζωή. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hasznos élettartam. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | vita utile, vita economica (and upon which the rate of depreciation allowed will normally depend, the period during which an asset is estimated to provide useful service to a business, working life), durata utile (and upon which the rate of depreciation allowed will normally depend, the period during which an asset is estimated to provide useful service to a business, working life). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | efulusay ifelay vida útil (life cycle). (various references) vida técnica (and upon which the rate of depreciation allowed will normally depend, the period during which an asset is estimated to provide useful service to a business, working life), vida útil (and upon which the rate of depreciation allowed will normally depend, foreseeable time of use, life, the period during which an asset is estimated to provide useful service to a business, working life). (various references) livslängd (life, life span, lifespan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-f-i-l-l-s-u-u" | |
-3 letters: fellies, fulfils, lifeful. | |
-4 letters: effuse, filles, fulfil, fusile, useful. | |
-5 letters: feels, fells, fiefs, fifes, files, fille, fills, flees, flies, flues, fuels, fulls, fusee, fusel, fusil, ileus, lieus, lisle, luffs, lulus, selle, sluff. | |
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