Life cycle, life-cycle, or lifecycle may refer to:
Science and academia
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Biological life cycle
In biology, a biological life cycle (or just life cycle or lifecycle when the biological context is clear) is a series of changes in form that an organism undergoes, returning to the starting state. "The concept is closely related to those of the ...
, the sequence of life stages that an organism undergoes from birth to reproduction ending with the production of the offspring
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Life-cycle hypothesis
In economics, the life-cycle hypothesis (LCH) is a model that strives to explain the consumption patterns of individuals.
Background
The hypothesis
Implications
Saving and wealth when income and population are stable
The effect of population ...
, in economics
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Erikson's stages of psychosocial development
Erikson's stages of psychosocial development, as articulated in the second half of the 20th century by Erik Erikson in collaboration with Joan Erikson, is a comprehensive psychoanalytic theory that identifies a series of eight stages that a health ...
, in psychoanalysis
Business
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Enterprise life cycle, the process of changing a business enterprise
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Project life cycle
Project management is the process of leading the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints. This information is usually described in project documentation, created at the beginning of the development process. Th ...
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Product lifecycle
In industry, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from its inception through the engineering, design and manufacture, as well as the service and disposal of manufactured products. PL ...
, the stages in the lifespan of a commercial or consumer product
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New product development
In business and engineering, new product development (NPD) covers the complete process of bringing a new product (business), product to market, renewing an existing product or introducing a product in a new market. A central aspect of NPD is prod ...
, the process of bringing a new product to market
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Life-cycle assessment
Life cycle assessment or LCA (also known as life cycle analysis) is a methodology for assessing environmental impacts associated with all the stages of the Product lifecycle, life cycle of a commercial product, Process lifecycle, process, or ...
, the analysis of the environmental impacts associated with a product
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Technology lifecycle
The technology life-cycle (TLC) describes the commercial gain of a product through the expense of research and development phase, and the financial return during its "vital life". Some technologies, such as steel, paper or cement manufacturing, ...
, the commercial gain of a product
Software
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Software development life cycle
In software engineering, a software development process is a process of dividing software development work into smaller, parallel, or sequential steps or sub-processes to improve design, product management. It is also known as a software deve ...
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Software release life cycle
A software release life cycle is the sum of the stages of development and maturity for a piece of computer software ranging from its initial development to its eventual release, and including updated versions of the released version to help impro ...
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Object lifetime of an object in object-oriented programming
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Program lifecycle phase
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Program lifecycle phases are the stages a computer program undergoes, from initial creation to deployment and execution. The phases are edit time, compile time, link tim ...
s are the stages a computer program undergoes, from initial creation to deployment and execution
Systems engineering
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Systems development life cycle
In systems engineering, information systems and software engineering, the systems development life cycle (SDLC), also referred to as the application development life cycle, is a process for planning, creating, testing, and deploying an informa ...
, a process for planning, creating, testing, and deploying, maintaining, and ultimate disposal of system in all phases of existence.
Arts and entertainment
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''Life Cycles'' (The Word Alive album), 2012
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''Life Cycle'' (Dave Holland album), 1983
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''Life Cycle'' (Sieges Even album), 1988
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''Life Cycle'' (Whit Dickey album), 2001
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''Lifecycle'' (album), a 2008 album by Yellowjackets
Other uses
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Jewish life cycle, a series of traditions associated with major life events in Judaism
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Records life-cycle
Records life-cycle in records management refers to the following stages of a records "life span": from its creation to its preservation (in an archives) or disposal. While various models of the records life-cycle exist, they all feature creation ...
, the treatment of records from their creation to archiving or destruction
See also
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Adobe LiveCycle
Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite (ES4) is a service-oriented architecture Java EE server software product from Adobe Systems used to build applications that automate a broad range of business processes for enterprises and government agencies. Li ...
, a server software product used to build applications that automate business processes
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Life history (disambiguation)
Life history may refer to:
* Life history theory, a theory of biological evolution that seeks to explain aspects of organisms' anatomy and behavior by reference to the way that their life histories have been shaped by natural selection
* Life hi ...
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