USEFUL LIFE

  

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USEFUL LIFE

Specialty Definition: USEFUL LIFE

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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.

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Crosswords: USEFUL LIFE

English words defined with "USEFUL LIFE": rehabilitated. (references)
Specialty definitions using "USEFUL LIFE": declining balance depreciation methodFrankenputerhard goods, hard line merchandise, haulage drumLIFE-CYCLE COSTPest resistance management plans, preservative agentstraight-line depreciationWaste, radioactive. (references)

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Commercial Usage: USEFUL LIFE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Henry P. Davison : the record of a useful life (reference)

  • Artificial Aging As a Predictor of Papers: Future Useful Life (Monograph Suppliment No. 1) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: USEFUL LIFE

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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.

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Expression: USEFUL LIFE

Expression using "USEFUL LIFE": estimated useful life. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: USEFUL LIFE

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

useful life

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: USEFUL LIFE

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

   

Portuguese

  

vida útil (life cycle). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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)

   

Swedish

  

livslängd (life, life span, lifespan). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: USEFUL LIFE

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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